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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: gender difference
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Date: Sat, 18-May-85 17:14:37 EDT
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> > 
> >      One of the articles I read said something about a fetus
> > being  human.   It  is  not human.  It is simply an organism
> > that may someday become human.  
> 
> Is this like evolution? What are the qualifications for admittance to the
> species. I hope I've made it. Is your definiton of a human a member of the
> species homo sapien and isn't that defined by a charcteristic set of genes?
> Please.
 Sure, fetuses are human, but so are nails,  hair, etc...   I amnot trying to
 compare fetuses to nails,  but just trying to point out that the term
 "human" is a very general one.   It is not because something is human that
 it is wrong to destroy it.
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Sophie Quigley
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