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From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Back to you, Ken
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 18:55:45 EST
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From: tdn@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Thomas Newton)
>For the sake of fairness, can we make
>the assumption that it is OK to kill the woman for the baby's convenience?
>You did say ALL alternatives.  :-<
Some of the "pro-lifers" have no qualms with that at all.  (No smily.)

Folks, the "when does life begin" debate (?) will never be resolved on this
net, because some of you firmly believe that the fetus is human from the
moment of conception and some of us believe that no matter what the nature of
the fetus, it doesn't have the right to act as a parasite on the mother.  (I
don't think too many pro-choicers would have problems with an "abortion" that
simply transplanted the fetus to another host, though, if such a thing came
into existence.)  Let's can this line of argument.

Anyone knowledgeable about medicine know how likely such a development is?

							-Dragon

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