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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Night of the Living Kidney Analogy -- the Sequel
- Message-ID: <nyikos.714429534@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <5697@catnip.berkeley.ca.us> <1992Aug21.000455.15996@noao.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 20:38:54 GMT
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- In <1992Aug21.000455.15996@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
-
- >From article by tanj@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Ren and Stimpy's Love Child):
- >> In article rjohnson@shell.com (Roy Johnson) writes:
- >>>Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com> writes:
- >>>> [paraphrase: parent not forced to donate kidney so no forced prenancy]
- >>
- >>>The key word that makes the donation analogy fail is "continue". The
- >>>support has already begun. Can a kidney donor unilaterally decide to
- >>>take kidney back?
-
- >My husband is a probation officer and a couple of years ago he had a
- >probationer, who was on for a drug offense, who had in fact destroyed
- >his kidneys with his drugs. So, his loving brother donated a kidney
- >to him. By the time he was assigned to my husband's caseload, he had
- >already destroyed this donated kidney as well with his drug habit, and was
- >on CAPD self-dialysis, which takes ALOT of discipline as it is a 40 minute
- >sterile procedure, 4 times a day! It's either that or die. For the rest of
- >his life. Because his brother has no more kidneys he can spare to donate
- >to him.
-
- All of which weakens the analogy with pregnancy even further. The mother's
- resources renew themselves after most childbirths, assuming she gets
- adequate health care.
-
- >> --Teddi
-
- >Suzanne Forgach
-