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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Who's Life Anyway?
Message-ID: <330@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 18:26:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 18:26:32 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 11:38:16 EDT
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Summary: 

In article <538@gitpyr.UUCP> tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor) writes:

>>of you. If you declare genetic information sacred, then perhaps you
>>advocate that all who die should be cloned to preserve this information.
>>Only special chemical selectors differentiate your cells. Flesh and
>>blood do not a human make, it's very complex.
> 
>I think there's a very important difference here.  One can live without his
>foreskin, you don't kill the child when you take it away.  On the other
>hand,  when you abort a fetus,  you take away its life.  You're not just
>taking *some* of its cells, you're taking *all* of them.  
>
>Let's compare apples with apples.

I was talking about genitic information. Until the fetus can live
outside the mother, it differs from her internal organs in only ONE way:

It contains unique genetic information.

Why is that so incredibly special? If the child can live away from its
mother, the law says that she has a responsiblity to give it to the
proper authorities if she doesn't want it. If she is carrying a new
fetus, and she says,"I don't want this," NOBODY can come in a take care
of it for her. I say she has a right to get rid of it. There is no
current alternative to destroying it. Genetic information is no longer
mysterious, no longer holy. It's just there. 

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"The Church of Fred has yet to come under attack.
    No one knows about it."
        -Rev. Wang Zeep