Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!tynor From: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Who's Life Anyway? Message-ID: <538@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 12:02:14 EDT Article-I.D.: gitpyr.538 Posted: Fri Jul 5 12:02:14 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 01:21:07 EDT References: <556@bgsuvax.UUCP> <283@vaxwaller.UUCP> <710@ihlpg.UUCP> <983@homxa.UUCP> <504@gitpyr.UUCP> <293@mit-vax.UUCP> Reply-To: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor) Distribution: net.abortion Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 40 Summary: In article <293@mit-vax.UUCP> csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) writes: >>It seems to me that since the fetus of 1 minute and the child of one >>month differ only in the amount of time since conception. > >This is wrong. There's a lot of difference. Millions of cells worth. >Months of developments worth. If I handed you a fetus of one minute, you ... >>They >>share the same genetic information, and are thus the same person. > >All the cells in your body carry them same genentic information. Are >they all versions of you? I hope you're not circumcised (sorry about the >personal nature, I'm making a point) because the doctor killed thousands >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. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You can't settle an issue if you keep avoiding the questions... Steve Tynor Georgia Instutute of Technology ...{akgua, allegra, amd, harpo, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp, rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, unmvax, ut-sally} !gatech!gitpyr!tynor -- Steve Tynor Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!tynor