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Politics : The abortion issue: pro-choice vs. anti-abortion
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To: TimF who wrote (97)10/14/2008 12:55:24 PM
From: LLCF  Read Replies (1) of 286
 
<That's totally false. From conception you have a new organism. What the moral status of that organism is, what the legal status should be, etc. are the questions that get debated, but there is no way you have just one organism.>

That is NOT "totally false"... What organism do you have? I agree you have "life". But each cell in your body is "life".

One needs to define "organism" presumably, since you claim there is a "new organism" at conception... I assume you also mean a "separate distict organism"? That would be incorrect of course:

""In multicellular life the word "organism" usually describes the whole hierarchical assemblage of systems (for example circulatory, digestive, or reproductive) themselves collections of organs; these are, in turn, collections of tissues, which are themselves made of cells.""

These systems are shared... they are not "separate". To speak of a "separate life" in early developement is actually non-sensical IMHO.

<Greater chance of survival, and "a separate individual",or to avoid the different meanings of separate, a "distinct individual" are two entirely separate concepts.>

The whole point is that speaking of 'separate' is meaningless. Is your "liver" separate from you? It's alive, has a "separate" function and is quite distinct from "you".

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