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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
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Reply-To: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor)
Distribution: net.abortion
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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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.

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