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- From: smccabe@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Sarah A McCabe)
- Subject: Re: Why Pro-Lifers must support forced organ donation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.221040.6631@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <BxKA1t.BM6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <lefty-161192123613@lefty.apple.com> <1eb8u7INN346@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:10:40 GMT
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- In article <1eb8u7INN346@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >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.
-
- Could someone who has it archived please repost the article about interchaging
- mouse tumors and embryos? The gist of it was that some experiments had
- been done which took mouse cancers and implanted them in mouse wombs and
- they grew into mouse fetuses while they took mouse embryos and implanted
- them in other mouse locations and they turned into mouse cancers. This
- suggests that the distinction between embryo and cancer is not as clear
- as you might think.
-
- Sarah McCabe
-