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- From: gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga)
- Subject: Re: Cycle 3 in my corresponcence with Mark on fetal tissue
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.184352.9934@coopsol.com>
- Organization: Stay Awake Software
- References: <1993Jan7.023419.11909@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan7.225030.6082@noao.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 18:43:52 GMT
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- <1993Jan7.225030.6082@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) said:
- >From article <1993Jan7.023419.11909@Princeton.EDU>, by datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper):
- >> <1993Jan6.225301.2016@noao.edu>, forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- ...
- >> (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".
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- I bet you forgot that even ships and planes are named.
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- >She was "Baby Theresa" and she was a human being.
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- I think they missed a great opportunity to perform a human brain
- transplant. What a chance for research.
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-
- Gordon
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