Reply #5: Only a special type of tumor, called a teratoma, has discrete DNA [View All]

A teratoma is a genetically discrete tissue mass from a failed twin pregnancy that was only partially reabsorbed. These are present from birth and occasionally may cause enough trouble later in life to require removal.

Regular cancer cells share one's DNA, but have had their instruction code go haywire. The DNA is still the same as the host's DNA.

However, your analogy breaks down completely when you equate one cell or even a thousand cells with a living, thinking, complete human being. It just isn't the case.

It also breaks down rather severely when you consider each living, thinking person's right to self defense. Cancer and pregnancy each carry risks, and it's up to the living, thinking adult to decide whether the risk of doing nothing is an acceptable one.

So please stop with silly analogies based on faulty knowledge of biology and the denial of basic human rights and we'll all get along better.