I'm rearranging your post to increase the clarity of my response. Hope no one minds/notices.
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Originally Posted by Stu Pidasso
Tissues are what make up organs and organs are what make up a human beings. A fetus has tissues which make up organs. To call a fetus a tissue is being a bit disingenious. A more accurate description would be to say a fetus is a collection of organs....which is what you also happen to be.
And name doesn't matter much to me....it matters to you. It matters to you because if you can somehow name a fetus as being something other than an individual organism then you can justify your prochoice position.
The name hasn't mattered to me yet -- you're the one that brought it up. I'm fine with calling a fetus a 'not-organism.' I don't care how you classify it past that, it's really irrelevant to me. You can insist that I should care more, but that doesn't take away from my position or advance yours -- if anything, it just shows you again not understanding the other side of this debate.
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Originally Posted by Stu Pidasso
The fact which is very difficult for you to dispute is that a fetus more closely resembles you...i.e. an individual organism than a particular organ or some collection of tissues.
If you want I can link some pictures of aborted fetuses and you can decide for yourself if they look more like individual organisms or simply tissue.
Yes, please appeal to my emotions! They are the weak side of me, and I'm sure you can turn me pro-life with pictures.
Btw, is this a bear? It surely looks more like a bear than an insect/worm, but apparently I've got the closeness of relationships wrong.
EDIT: btw, you wouldn't even need to link me to pictures. I've held in my own gloved hands a miscarried fetus. That has not changed my life.
Last edited by ganstaman; 07-28-2011 at 12:40 AM.