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  1. Newsgroups: talk.abortion
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!rtnmr.chem.yale.edu!rescorla
  3. From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
  4. Subject: Re: Right to Kill (was Re: Cough Man's hypocrisy)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep10.232909.10951@cs.yale.edu>
  6. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
  8. Organization: Rescorla for himself.
  9. References: <24591@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Sep10.230934.26108@noao.edu>
  10. Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:29:09 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Sep10.230934.26108@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
  14. >From article by bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense):
  15. >> We eat other people??? How nauseating! :) (depending on what other people:)
  16.  
  17. >Well hey, harvesting fetal tissue for the bodily use of adults is certainly
  18. >a form of cannibalism.
  19. I would suggest that this is dubious at best. Typically, cannibalism
  20. is viewed as EATING human flesh.
  21.  
  22. However, if we extend it this far, we've clearly included organ transplantation
  23. and I think arguably blood transfusions. To do so effectively robs
  24. the term "cannibal" of any shock value.
  25. -Ekr
  26.  
  27.  
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  29. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  30. Eric Rescorla, DoD#431 (Nighthawk S)              rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
  31. Former chemist now CM400 mechanic                 ekr@eitech.com(preferred)
  32.                        I will hack Unix for food.
  33.