Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihopa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihopa!edw From: edw@ihopa.UUCP (Edwin Windes) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Fetus = living organism (?????) Message-ID: <324@ihopa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 09:49:48 EDT Article-I.D.: ihopa.324 Posted: Thu Jul 11 09:49:48 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 07:49:23 EDT References: <3026@decwrl.UUCP> <1185@pyuxd.UUCP> <804@ihlpg.UUCP> <1196@pyuxd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 21 > > Fetuses are living organisms of OUR species. > If you take it out and it ceases to function, it wasn't a > living thing, it was still a fetus in a parasitic stage of development. By "ceases to function" I assume you mean DIE, or would that be sensational retoric on my part? Is it my terminal, or is this just a stupid argument? My grandmother would cease to function if we stopped caring for her -- and I'll beat you silly if you call her a fetus. Look, it is just a matter of degree. Not one of you out there can convince me that you are self-sufficient, but most of you are living members of our species. -- Edwin D. Windes ..!ihnp4!ihopa!edw AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il "Are we having fun yet? ... wake me when it starts."