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To: YlangYlangBreeze who wrote (252)2/7/2001 5:52:01 PM
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I'd read about the HeLa cells. That is a very interesting link.

Those cells are human, of course. Human DNA. Quantities of them have been grown in laboratories. Let's imagine 130 pounds of them in a container. They are not the human being, Helen Lane. And a hundred and thirty pounds of her cells in a container that included, hypothetically, a clone of the fertilized ovum that 25 years before had developed into Helen Lane, would also not be Helen Lane, the human being. It would be a lot of cells including a fertilized ovum.

Unless personal metaphysics is brought into play to generate definitions that attempt to justify forcing others to live by a religion not theirs.
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