Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!houxm!homxa!wine From: wine@homxa.UUCP (J.GORDON) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: A Quote Without a Context Message-ID: <1093@homxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 23:27:01 EDT Article-I.D.: homxa.1093 Posted: Wed Aug 7 23:27:01 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 04:15:29 EDT References: <87@drutx.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 18 >> Personally I think that a fetus qualifies as alive, as does a cancer >> cell, but I think that the carrier of either has the right to remove >> it. The concept of 'alive' is not so well defined as some think! > >This is an analogy? Cancer and a human fetus? [etc.,etc.,etc.] I was not making an analogy -- I was just pointing out that the concept of 'alive' is not straightforward and can not be used to distinguish the morality of an action (eg. to abort a fetus). To W. E. Deibert: Didn't your mommy ever tell you not to quote out of context? Jim Gordon, Jr. (JR not SR as has been reported) An open mind is one of the greatest attributes a person can have... But not TOO open!