Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Fetus = living organism (?????) Message-ID: <818@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 16:05:20 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.818 Posted: Thu Jul 11 16:05:20 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 08:17:29 EDT References: <3026@decwrl.UUCP> <1185@pyuxd.UUCP> <804@ihlpg.UUCP> <1196@pyuxd.UUCP> <817@ihlpg.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 41 > >>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 -- 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 -- 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