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- From: datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper)
- Subject: Re: Cycle 3 in my corresponcence with Mark on fetal tissue
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.023419.11909@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:34:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.225301.2016@noao.edu>, forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne
- Forgach) writes:
-
- >From article by mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran):
- >>
- >> Well then, lets look at this case...
- >> From the one anencephalic baby, we could have harvested 1 heart, 2
- >> lungs, 2 kidneys, a liver suitable for ressection to provide
- >> transplants for as many as 3 others, bone marrow, and 2 corneas.
- >> Transplant recipients had been identified with tissue matches for the
- >> heart, both lungs, both kidneys, and 2 liver sections. Bone marrow had
- >> not been matched yet. Neither had corneas, but they are relatively
- >> easy to match.
- >>
- >> Since people who call themselves Pro-Life took steps to halt any organ
- >> donations until after brain death, this is the outcome:
- >> The recipients for the heart, both lungs, 1 kidney and 1 liver section
- >> are now dead. The other kidney, liver, and bone marrow recipients are
- >> still waiting and hoping. The corneas were eventually used.
- >
- >
- >Ya just don't get it, Mark. Those organs were not the parents' to
- >donate. Their baby was STILL USING THEM. They were HERS, and HERS
- >alone, and she had every right to keep them. For pro-"choicers" who
- >that like to talk big about people having the right to THEIR OWN bodies,
- >this case shows them up particularly well as the hypocrites they are.
-
- And you're pro-life? If "life" is your most overriding principle, surely
- you would jump at the chance to save at least seven lives, maybe more.
- (Life's full of tough choices, inn'it?) Can an anencephalic baby even
- have an identity beyond numerical identity, or is it merely a mass
- of biological tissue shaped like a human being?
-
- Tep
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