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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Equal rights
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.040504.11876@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan1.021250.25307@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1298@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <1993Jan5.031346.10375@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 04:05:04 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.031346.10375@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes:
- >In article <1298@blue.cis.pitt.edu> sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan1.021250.25307@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>#In article <1276@blue.cis.pitt.edu> sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >>##In article <1992Dec31.180409.6025@midway.uchicago.edu> eeb1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>##[deletions]
- >>###BTW -- where's your support of a woman's right with the help of a
- >>###willing SO to have a child without going through pregnancy?
- >>##
- >>##I just wanted to see this again. I think it's the best response
- >>##I've seen yet (closely followed by those who support a man's
- >>##right to have an abortion) to those who would ignore biology
- >>##in their quest for absolute equality.
- >>#
- >>#Um, Susan...
- >>#This *is* possible...
- >>#All you need isa surrogate mother, and an in vitro fertilization, and
- >>#a little luck in the implantation...
- >>
- >>Sorry, Mark, I've decided to be ridiculous about this. Your reply
- >>makes perfect sense, so I have to reject it.
- >>
- >>You've involved a third person. I want to see support for a woman's
- >>right to have her biological child with only the help of a willing
- >>SO. Otherwise, things wouldn't be exactly equal.
- >
- >Well, this is pretty far fetched, but...
- >
- >Take a lesbian couple. Extract the DNA from one woman. Implant it into an egg
- >from the other woman. Place the egg back into the other woman...
-
- Not so far fetched, the technology to do this is already present.
- But it still invovles a third party, (the entire staff involved in the
- fertilization) and Susan said she won't let us do that.
-
- How about this: Extract a cell from one woman, clone it, and implant
- the developing embryo in the same woman. Since we're counting the
- clinic staff as one party, that doesn't involved a third party.
- How's that sound Susan?
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer, your emplyer, your government, the
- Church of your choice, and the Ghost of Elvis. So there.
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