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- From: mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Is Peter going to be enrolling at NCSU? (Was: Badges of Honor)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.110516.4584@hemlock.cray.com>
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- References: <nyikos.716074092@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Sep10.214356.17609@midway.uchicago.edu> <nyikos.716336156@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 11:05:15 CDT
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- In article <nyikos.716336156@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >In <1992Sep10.214356.17609@midway.uchicago.edu> eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley) writes:
- >
- >>In article <nyikos.716074092@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- >>nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >
- >>>Elizabeth thought the umbilical cord was a part of the mother's body.
- >
- >>Wrong. I thought that the umbilical cord *connected* to the mother's
- >>body, and if the part of the mother's body it connects to was
- >>surgically removed, the fetus would die.
- >
- >For the benefit of readers who might miss the import of the word
- >"thought", let me point out that the umbilical cord connects to
- >the placenta, which is still not a part of the mother's body, coming
- >as it does from the original fertilized ovum, along with the cord,
- >fetus, and bag of waters.
- >
- Your trivialization of the contribution of resources from the
- woman's body for the construction of these items is not surprising,
- but still disgusting.
-
- muriel
- standard disclaimer
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