From: "Michael Harney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: religious/political question Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 21:39:27 -0700
From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Bullshit. I ask again: Why should anyone consider a parasitic lump of > undifferentiated cells any differently from a cancer? >
Because a cancer is defined as an abnormal and malignant cell growth. Malignant, if you need clarification, means it has the potential to spread to other tissues in the body. Perhaps the word you were looking for is "tumor" which can describe any sort of abnormal cell growth in the body, cancerous or not.
I'd like to add that I believe in all cases an unchecked cancer will threaten the life of the host organism. This generally doesn't happen in pregnancy unless something goes seriously wrong.
By the way, a current theory in structural psychology is that the fetal-mother relationship is symbiotic and not parasitic. Among other things, this refers to the concept that developmentally a mother and child are a single organism with only one psyche until birth.
By your line of reasoning though, do you think abortion is wrong after cell differentiation has started (4 weeks after conception)? Just curious, not really looking to re-start that particular debate.
Oy.
::backing away slowly::
;-)
Jon
Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com
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