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- From: lefty@apple.com (Lefty)
- Subject: Re: Why Pro-Lifers must support forced organ donation
- Sender: news@mumbo.apple.com (The News System)
- Message-ID: <lefty-171192181652@lefty.apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:20:09 GMT
- References: <lefty-101192140033@lefty.apple.com> <BxKA1t.BM6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <lefty-161192123613@lefty.apple.com> <1992Nov17.173120.452@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Our Lady of Heavy Artillery
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- In article <1992Nov17.173120.452@rotag.mi.org>, kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin
- Darcy) wrote:
- >
- > In article <lefty-161192123613@lefty.apple.com> lefty@apple.com (Lefty) writes:
- > >
- > >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?
- >
- > A z/e/f is a living human organism, just like us. A cancerous growth, on the
- > other hand, is not an "organism" -- it's just a bunch of cells growing out
- > of control.
-
- As is usual for you, you make sweeping pronouncements without any
- particular knowledge of what you're blabbering about.
-
- Find out what a teratoma is. See whether you learn anything.
-
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- Lefty (lefty@apple.com)
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