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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Cycle 3 in my corresponcence with Mark on fetal tissue
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.052504.9062@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan8.000909.6396@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <1ifv7vINNpea@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com>
- >regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >>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.
- >
- >> Uh, you did say "her" didn't you? Well, if the pro-lifers have their way,
- >> Suzanne, she won't be able to claim her WOMB is 'hers and hers alone', so
- >> why should you be able to claim in her stead (especially believing as you
- >> apparently do) that her organs are hers and hers alone? If the state can
- >> commandeer a woman's womb, why not her corneas? Why not her kidneys?
- >> Why not her liver? It's to *save a life*! after all. So why not?
- >
- >There's a thin line between killing and refusing to save a life
- >which you seem to have ignored. In the cases of abortion and
- >organ transplant from an anencephalic infant, you're talking
- >about killing a living human being so that another may benefit.
- >No matter how much you wish it to be, abortion is not "refusing
- >to save a life", it is killing. Furthermore, Baby Theresa was
- >not responsible for the condition of people who could have used
- >her organs, nor was she even related to them.
- >
- What killing? That baby was dead. The only thing keeping her body
- going (not her, just the body) was artificial life support. What you
- (you being pro-"life" idiots) managed to do was to take away what the
- parents saw as the one positive thing that could have come out of
- their tragedy.
- How do you sleep at night knowing you're responsible for the deaths of
- those born, wanted, loved children?
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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