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- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!rhino!conradv
- From: conradv@eng.clemson.edu (Conrad Vincent)
- Subject: Re: NEWBIE ALERT! (was Re: Supreme Court)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.173011.23760@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Sender: news@hubcap.clemson.edu (news)
- Reply-To: conradv@eng.clemson.edu
- Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
- References: <1992Jul23.181910.20491@bmw.mayo.edu>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 17:30:11 GMT
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- In article 20491@bmw.mayo.edu, bmc@mayo.edu (Bruce Cameron) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul23.155357.1654@csus.edu>, chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney) writes:
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- >|> Could there be no difference between the taking of the "life" of a
- >|> human fetus and that of an animal one?
- >|>
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- >If we are avoiding religious and moral specifications, and looking
- >purely at the "science", then, we need to accept the idea that life
- >is determined by a cell's ability to utilize energy (cellular
- >respiration). A cell that is not using energy is not alive.
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- >|> Well, is there a difference between killing an adult human and an
- >|> adult cow? In America, there is: one is of the HUMAN species and the
- >|> other is not.
- >|>
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- >Two minor points,
- > 1) the fact that a human is a member of homo sapien and the
- > cow is not holds true in places other then america.
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- > 2) again, if we are to look at this issue purely in a scientific
- > manner, there can be no difference between the termination
- > of a human life or the termination of a bovine life.
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- From a scientific viewpoint, each species looks after its own members. You cant
- catch a cow advocating porcine rights.
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- Conrad C Vincent
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- " All that is required for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing"
- Edmund Burke
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