wed@drutx.UUCP (DeibertWE) (08/07/85)
> Personally I think that a fetus qualifies as alive, as does a cancer > cell, but I think that the carrier of either has the right to remove > it. The concept of 'alive' is not so well defined as some think! This is an analogy? Cancer and a human fetus? If left untampered the end result of a fetus, will in all likelihood, be human life, eventually self supporting. If left untampered the end result of cancer, will in all likelihood, be death. In one sense both a fetus and cancer could be considered 'alive', but in another sense, one is life and the other is death. Just for the sake of curiosity, this leaves me wondering what the number of deaths (per year) attributed to cancer would look like next to the number of reported abortions. All religious connotations aside for the moment, we have a really good idea of the one act that gives start to a fetus. Does anybody really know what causes cancer? William D.