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- From: forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach)
- Subject: Re: Cycle 3 in my corresponcence with Mark on fetal tissue
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.225030.6082@noao.edu>
- Originator: forgach@gemini.tuc.noao.edu
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- Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA
- References: <1993Jan7.023419.11909@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:50:30 GMT
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- From article <1993Jan7.023419.11909@Princeton.EDU>, by datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper):
- > In article <1993Jan6.225301.2016@noao.edu>, forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne
- > Forgach) writes:
- >>
- >>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.
-
- Sorry you lose. "Not killing" is my overriding principle. No one killed
- those other folks. They died of natural causes, which is neither illegal,
- nor immoral. But they _didn't_ get away with killing a baby just to
- cannibalize her parts.
-
-
- > (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?
-
- She had her own identity. Her parents even agreed with that premise enough
- that they named her. She was never "Baby XYZ", "Baby 978", or even "Baby Doe".
- She was "Baby Theresa" and she was a human being.
-
-
- > Tep
-
- Suzanne Forgach
-