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In article <3atqia$hp1@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, mstraigh@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Michael Straight) writes:
|> 
|> Funny, I had a similar dream:
|> 
|> My father is lying in a hospital bed, in desperate need of a heart
|> transplant.  There are three people ahead of him.  A nurse rushes in with
|> a heart from a man who died of natural causes. A life is saved.  Another
|> nurse rushes in with the heart of a man who just died in a traffic
|> accident. A second life is saved.  A third heart is rushed in from a woman
|> who was in a coma and whose brain finally ceased functioning.  A third
|> life is saved.  My father is close to death, so a nurse goes out in the
|> alley, finds a homeless bum, drugs him, cuts off his head, harvests the
|> heart, and brings it into my dad's room.  My dad says, "no thank you,"
|> and dies.  They give the heart to the next person in line, whose life is
|> saved.
|> 
|> The question of which of these dreams more closely approximates the
|> dilemna concerning abortion is not a simple one.
|> 
     Certainly nothing in your dream(s) comes close to approximating the fetal
tissue case.  Under current law (and this would have been the case had Reagan
lifted the ban, and this he knew full well), doctors performing research/trans-
plants may NOT solicit abortions for the purpose of tissue harvest; i.e. if the
"nurse goes out in the alley, finds a homeless bum, drugs him, cuts off his
head, and harvests the heart", she would have no more place in the transplant
operating theater, or the consulting room for that matter, than the mugger who
killed the fetus (but spared the mother) whose brain tissue appeared under the
third microscope.

|> Michael Straight wishes people would stop pretending it was.

Martin Booda knows it's simple when you ditch the sensationalism for the facts.
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