[lbo-talk] Re: I'm not sorry

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Thu Jan 15 15:59:51 PST 2004


But to say that one's humanity depends on the the ability to survive outside the womb ("viability") is to apply a distressingly sliding scale: medical technology has changed that substantially in a rather short time. --CGE

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:


> C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
> >Passage through the birth canal makes a potential human being an actual
> >one? (Or some analogous point for Macduff, Caesar, and many others?)
>
> The passage through the birth canal of a three-month-old fetus would
> be quite unusual, and would yield a strange looking creature that
> wouldn't survive very long.



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