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- From: gordons@netcom.com (Gordon Storga)
- Subject: Re: Cycle 3 in my corresponcence with Mark on fetal tissue
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.005205.18070@netcom.com>
- Organization: Gizmonic Institute - Home of the "Big G Burger"
- References: <1993Jan8.184352.9934@coopsol.com> <1993Jan9.073858.21983@noao.edu>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:52:05 GMT
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- <1993Jan9.073858.21983@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) :
- >From article by gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga):
- >> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) said:
- >>>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".
- >>
- >> I bet you forgot that even ships and planes are named.
- >
- >Well, if you want to be absurd, you forgot hurricanes and cartoon
- >characters too. Ah, but none of these had human parents, but Baby
- >Theresa did.
-
- I didn't argue that. I argued your contention that she was somehow more
- than just a brainless body just because her parents named her.
-
- >>>She was "Baby Theresa" and she was a human being.
- >>
- >> I think they missed a great opportunity to perform a human brain
- >> transplant. What a chance for research.
- >
- >Can we count on you to donate your brain to the next anacephalic baby
- >to catch the media's attention, then? (Surely it would fit in that
- >shrunken skull....... sorry, I just couldn't resist that one Da
- >Devil made me do it :-) )
-
- In all seriousness, there are babies that are born prematurely or with
- birth defects so bad that it would make sense to transfer the brain to
- a healthy body instead of replacing all the parts. I realize that this
- is out of our realm of medical knowledge, however, that's the point of
- any medical experiment - to increase our knowledge, save lives, and
- improve the quality of life.
-
-
- Gordon
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