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From: steiny@idsvax.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Re: Disposition of Aborted Fetuses
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Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 12:02:31 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  9 12:02:31 1985
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> To Don Steiny: "Fetuses are like other dead animal material" --
> except that they aren't dead before they're put to some of
> the uses mentioned in the article, and they aren't animal;
> they are human.
=> Gary Samuelson

	Humans are not animals?   Yikes!  Things have changed since
I took biology in high-school.   Are we plants now?  Protoza?  Prions?

	As far as I am concerned, quality of life is 
more important than quanity of life.  If you dismiss any 
quality that might have been bestowed on humans by 
Gods, daemons, ghosts, or other magical creatures then humans
are like any other animal.  We have no predators (outside ourselves)
and year by year more diseases are loosing their power to control
population.   It is a wonderful thing that humans have the intelligence
to understand what the results of unrestrained population growth
would be.  

	I think abortion can be useful and appropriate.  It is 
probably better to perform experiments with fetuses than
dogs, they are closer to humans.  I am glad they are using
them in cosmetics.  No reason to let anything go to waste.