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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Why Pro-Lifers must support forced organ donation
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 17:08:23 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- Message-ID: <1eb8u7INN346@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- References: <lefty-101192140033@lefty.apple.com> <BxKA1t.BM6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <lefty-161192123613@lefty.apple.com>
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- In article <lefty-161192123613@lefty.apple.com> lefty@apple.com (Lefty) writes:
- #In article <BxKA1t.BM6@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, schnaufe@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
- #(Bernard A Schnaufer) wrote:
- #>
- #> lefty@apple.com (Lefty) writes:
- #>
- #> >In article <Bx3I9x.G8y@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, schnaufe@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
- #> >(Bernard A Schnaufer) wrote:
- #> >>
- #> >> In the case of a pregnancy it is perfectly natural for the baby to be
- #> >> inside the mother to grow. Human beings cannot grow normally in any
- #> >> other enviroment at this stage in their lives. The mothers body
- #> >> accomodates the new life inside by adjusting accordingly. Women are
- #> >> designed to be able to be pregnant.
- #>
- #> >Hmm. Let's see what we can do with this, through the magic of "search and
- #> >replace"...
- #>
- #> >> In the case of cancer it is perfectly natural for the tumor to be inside
- #> >> the host to grow. Tumors cannot grow normally in any other
- #> >> enviroment at this stage in their lives. The host's body accomodates
- #> >> the new life inside by adjusting accordingly. People are designed to be
- #> >> able to develop cancer.
- #>
- [...]
- #In point of fact, my observation is of equal substance to your original
- #one. The cases, as far as I can see are 100 per cent parallel. If you
- #disagree, please feel free to explain why.
-
- I disagree. Cancer cells never result in autonomous human beings. Cancer
- is a disease, and always unwelcome, pregnancy isn't.
-
- #As an alternative, please consider the following: I have a good friend who
- #has been diagnosed as having an internal "growth" of some sort. The cells
- #comprising this "growth" have different DNA than my friend; the cells,
- #moreover, are differentiating as it grows; it is growing at a somewhat
- #alarming, and potentially health-threatening rate.
- #
- #Should my friend have this growth removed? Should my friend be _permitted_
- #to have this growth removed?
-
- Yep. And so should a woman be entitled to have an abortion. But in the
- latter case, it is a person that is being removed from the woman's body,
- not a cancerous growth.
-
- #Lefty (lefty@apple.com)
-
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