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- From: emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Marsh)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Siamese Twins: How Many People?
- Message-ID: <l9q0vgINN8cq@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:33:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.145127.631@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de () writes:
- >emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Marsh) writes:
- >: Lets take a case where a single torso is shared by two heads, each of
- >: these heads having its own personality. Is this a single person, or is
- >: it two people? If this is a single person, then do we have the right to
- >: arbitrarly lop off one of those heads, providing that it does not
- >: kill the rest of the being?
-
- >What has this got to do with abortion?
-
- If abortion is about the killing of a person, the case of siamese
- twins should help us to identify what is and is not a person.
-
- >Frank O'Dwyer
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- Eric
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