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- From: linley@netcom.com (Bruce James Robrert Linley)
- Subject: Re: Embryos as Property and Viability as a Standard?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.175751.4799@netcom.com>
- Keywords: Property rights, abortion, compensation for involuntary loss...?
- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, UCLA
- References: <lairdb.725231193@crash.cts.com> <C00HHu.6xA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <C02MCM.D71@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:57:51 GMT
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- In a previous article kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l) spake...
- >parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker) writes:
- >
- >>lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird P. Broadfield) writes:
- >
- >>>In <1h98toINN59@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >
- >>>>It is not being squelched on the grounds that it's "icky". It's being
- >>>>squelched on the grounds that it is patently false. An embryo is
- >>>>*not* a body part of the mother.
- >
- >>>Based on...? Few disciplines I'm aware of accept proof-by-assertion; on
- >>>what basis do you draw the line? How do you distinguish a few cells of
- >>>embryo from a few cells of skin?
- >
- >>Well, the fact that they are genetically distinct is one big way, even though
- >>*detecting* that may be essentially impossible with current technology.
- >
- >>On the other hand, the embryo (we're talking pre-viability here) is nowhere
- >>near being a separate, independent organism; it recieves *all* of its
- >>sustinence from the mother's blood (after implantation) or from the reserves
- >>of the egg (before implantation) which also came from the mother. Without
- >>the resources of the mother, the embryo would not survive. It is probably
- >>in that sense that was meant in the original post that the embryo is "part"
- >>of the mother.
- >
- >Which means that you are a rock, since you derive *all* your sustenance
- >from the earth, or from its reserves, which came from the earth. You would
- >not survive if you were suddenly thrown into space, thus you're not viable
- >either. Therefore, anyone who wishes to kill you is only performing a
- >Gaia abortion - perfectly acceptable.
- >
- Of course, sustinence can be provided by ANY mother's blood, depending on who
- it's implanted into.
-
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- Bruce James Robert Linley | "Well, I tried shoving a weiner in the warp drive,
- Comp Sci & Engr, UCLA | but it didn't do a bit o' good."
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