Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!qumix!ittvax!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf 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 Article-I.D.: mit-vax.330 Posted: Mon Jul 8 18:26:32 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 11:38:16 EDT References: <556@bgsuvax.UUCP> <283@vaxwaller.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Distribution: net.abortion Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 33 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