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- From: tanj@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Ren and Stimpy's Love Child)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Differences between an Infant and a Fetus
- Message-ID: <5635@catnip.berkeley.ca.us>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 04:42:40 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.014836.6377@ncsu.edu# <1992Jul22.101440.23207@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU# <1992Jul22.132341.13407@menudo.uh.edu# <85fmkv_.ray@netcom.com#
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- In article <85fmkv_.ray@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- #HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.) writes ...
- ## tjoa@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
- ### In some article...dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- ### #But why doesn't the fetus enjoy the same right to bodily autonomy?
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- ### I think the big reason is because it is not autonomous. Show me a fetus
- ### that cannot survive without a host to leech off of, and then I'd agree that
- ### it was autonomous.[deletion]
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- ## Show me a newborn infant that can survive more than a day or three without
- ##someone to feed/care for it. It must leech food and resources from outside
- ##sources too.
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- #The key (and embarrasingly obvious) difference is that, like any other person,
- #an infant doesn not depend on any _one_ person for its survival; care can
- #(and often is) transferred to other people. This is not possible before
- #birth.
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- Other differences include that the infant does not alter bone structure, cause
- hormonal fluctuations, nausea, sapping of nutrients and dumping of waste into
- the bloodstream, increased risk of death, and searing pain, blood and ripping
- of flesh as it exits the host body when carried to term.
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- Name me any infant who can do all of that.
-
- --Teddi
- ---------------Another Catholic School Survivor (12 years!)--------------
-