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From: liz@tove.UUCP (Liz Allen)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Human beings
Message-ID: <281@tove.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 22:50:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 22:50:07 1985
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Reply-To: liz@tove.UUCP (Liz Allen)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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Summary: parasite != living ???

I don't understand why people keep saying that a fetus is "a
parasite" and, therefore, is not living.  Even granting that a
fetus could be loosely viewed as a parasite since it lives off
his/her mother, this doesn't show that he/she is not living.  My
dictionary says that a parasite is:

	A plant or animal living in or on another organism...

Note that plants and animals are normally considered to be living
and that even the verb "living" appears in this definition.

I realize that most of you probably don't make this mistake, but
it has been stated too many times without contradiction to let it
pass again...
-- 
Liz Allen    U of Maryland   ...!seismo!umcp-cs!liz   liz@tove.ARPA

"This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you:  God
 is light; in him there is no darkness at all" -- 1 John 1:5