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From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Fetus = living organism (?????)
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 16:05:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 16:05:20 1985
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> >>Human beings are alive.  Living organisms of OUR species, whose rights we
> >>respect.  Fetuses (funny you forgot to bring them up) are not.
>  
> > Fetuses are living organisms of OUR species. 
> 
> Then surely they don't need to "live" in a womb, they can be removed from
				  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, Rich, you're alive (or so it's been rumored), but surely you don't
need to live in a oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere...how about some nice ammonia,
just for a change of pace?  Why don't you volunteer to explore Jupiter
for us (without a spacesuit, natch....)

> the body of a woman who doesn't want it inside of her, who might not want
> (at this time, perhaps not at all) to allow it the privilege of using the
> inside of her body as the place where it would become (eventually) a living
> organism.  As you yourself asked in an earlier article, is there a biologist
> in the house?  If you take it out and it ceases to function, it wasn't a
					   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If it was functioning, it must have been alive.

Where's m'biologist, Rich?

> living thing, it was still a fetus in a parasitic stage of development.
> 			Rich Rosen   ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr

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					AMBAR
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					AMBAR
                    	{the known universe}!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand

"To those who love it is given to hear
 Music too high for the human ear." 	--Bruce Cockburn