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[Matt]

Should viruses be studied by biology?

Surely virology has that covered? I suppose the real question then becomes “is virology a specialisation of biology”. An interesting topic, maybe we should start a new thread for it?

would …cells be like life?

By most definitions, cells are life.

I can see where this could go wrong…. and where how you define “life.” Comes into play

Not really. If you have another life inside you (by saying cells are life, you have billions, maybe even trillions) you are well within your rights to forcibly remove said life. i.e. if you get an infection, antibiotics can be used to treat the infection (i.e. kill the life causing the infection). I see no reason this shouldn’t apply (at the discretion of those actually involved) to any and all life inhabiting one’s body.

Currently, abortion might be described as a form of justifiable homicide if it is homicide at all.

Homicide depends on classifying the foetus as a human being and on the fact that you actually kill the foetus. A crueller (in my opinion) alternative which sounds nicer is forced eviction, i.e. not killing the foetus but removing it from the womb anyway (no doubt the foetus would then die of natural causes).