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ding Mar’24 Seapyz: But at conception it is scientifically correct to say a new, genetically distinct human being has come into existence. One that has never existed before and will never exist again.
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NotfooledbyW Apr’24 Veapyz:
biologically speaking life begins at conception. •¥• public interest in protecting human life begins at birth. •¥¥•. A fetus has a right to life through the right to life of its mother. •¥¥¥•. a potential birthmother has the right to end fetal life in her body because her right to life is established and she is the only person involved who can decide to assume the risk of giving birth. •¥¥¥¥•. white Christian nationalist politicians cannot assume the risk for any woman being forced into full term gestation against their
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Saint Ding is very scientific. He probably has a very good idea when fetal consciousness is established.
Here is what I think is true.
Does sentience appear in the womb, at birth or during early childhood?
www.scientificamerican.com
The Road to Awareness
But when does the magical journey of consciousness begin?
Consciousness requires a sophisticated network of highly interconnected components, nerve cells. Its physical substrate, the thalamo-cortical complex that provides consciousness with its highly elaborate content, begins to be in place between the 24th and 28th week of gestation. Roughly two months later synchrony of the electroencephalographic (EEG) rhythm across both cortical hemispheres signals the onset of global neuronal integration. Thus, many of the circuit elements necessary for consciousness are in place by the third trimester. By this time, preterm infants can survive outside the womb under proper medical care. And as it is so much easier to observe and interact with a preterm baby than with a fetus of the same gestational age in the womb, the fetus is often considered to be like a preterm baby, like an unborn newborn. But this notion disregards the unique uterine environment: suspended in a warm and dark cave, connected to the placenta that pumps blood, nutrients and hormones into its growing body and brain, the fetus is asleep.