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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Disposition of Aborted Fetuses
Message-ID: <551@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-May-85 11:04:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 11:04:28 1985
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Summary: 

Once again, Samuelson is determined to bludgeon our sensabilities until
we at last scream "yes, anything you say, only shut up!"

Our society (as most do) tends to hide dead and bloody things.  Most of
us would be as revolted by surgery or slaughter of animals as we are by
graphic descriptions of dead fetuses and their disposal.  This is not
because they are inherently wrong: it is a matter of conditioning
(and perhaps even a fear we develop spontaneously, like fear of snakes.)

Personally, I don't care what happens to dead human flesh, my own included.
You're all welcome to eat my body after I've died, use it for experiments,
use it in perfumes, makeups, or shampoos.  And most people really don't
care what happens to dead fetuses: they just want them out of sight.

Perhaps Samuelson has a better method of disposal in mind.  Should they be
flushed the way millions of spontaneous abortions are?  Why isn't Gary
indigant about that?  Should he require that women use little dip nets to
remove the body and give it a Christian burial?  :-(

A really good example of the ridiculous lengths he goes to is questioning
the destiny of the placenta.  What does Gary want to do with it?  Why is
the placenta of an abortion any different than the placenta of a normal
birth?  The placenta is essentially the only disposable, renewable organ
humans can develop.  Does Samuelson want to bronze them, eat them, or
provide them full funeral rites?

In summary, I'm nauseated: and not by the subject so much as the tactics
Gary is using.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh