[Pseudonym]

Brenda Brenda:

hwacker hwacker:

Brenda Brenda:

The day someone is born, and can actually exist outside the womb.

that's never, unless the kid comes out at about 5.


you gonna give birth to a 5YO ?

Some people can never exist on their own, right Hwack?

Fine. Respond to Hwack and don't talk to me.

*feels left out*

[Wally_Sconce]

LOL

[Brenda]

Ohhh, baby, I am sorry, did I miss something?

[Benoit]

'man is a primate fetus that has become sexually mature'
Louis Bolk

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/anthl_06.html

[Brenda]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Brenda Brenda:

The day someone is born, and can actually exist outside the womb.

So what about a preemie in an incubator?

That is surviving, thus existing, right?

[Wally_Sconce]

Benoit, did you just happen to know that quote? or did you search for it?

[Benoit]

Aging_Redneck Aging_Redneck:

Benoit, did you just happen to know that quote? or did you search for it?

I was knowing it in French: "l'homme est un avorton chronique".

[RUEZ]

Brenda Brenda:

RUEZ RUEZ:

Brenda Brenda:

The day someone is born, and can actually exist outside the womb.

So what about a preemie in an incubator?

That is surviving, thus existing, right?

Not really, but for the sake of argument I'll agree. So as soon as it leaved the womb it's considered a human life. Ten seconds before that it's expendable.

[Brenda]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Brenda Brenda:

That is surviving, thus existing, right?

Not really, but for the sake of argument I'll agree. So as soon as it leaved the womb it's considered a human life. Ten seconds before that it's expendable.

Nah, it is a bit more complicated, imo.
If medical science did what ever it could, and it was kept alive, all the good.

I thought babies can be kept alive at as early as 24 weeks. That doesn't mean I agree with abortion up to 24 weeks - 1 second.

[Brenda]

Isn't that against his work ethics?

[Wally_Sconce]

Hows Amy doing?

[Wally_Sconce]

Hows Amy doing?

[Delwin]

I think that life exists in the sperm aswell as in the egg. Cells can individually be alive or dead and there are of course cases where a person is brain dead and their bodies can be kept "alive", for a very long time.

However, I don't think a human becomes a human until they are capable of processing thought. Similarily, I believe that if you are brain dead, you are essentially no longer a human being.

I believe the brain starts processesing thought in the first trimester after the development of the brainstem at about 9 weeks.

[Wally_Sconce]

lily lily:

Aging_Redneck Aging_Redneck:

Hows Amy doing?

She's 20 and just completed her second year of university. She's always been a fighter with a feisty personality. She was fortunate that she had no health problems... deafness and Cerebral Palsy among other things are quite common with premies.

Thats awesome. I'm glad to hear it.

[Pseudonym]

Brenda Brenda:

Ohhh, baby, I am sorry, did I miss something?

Oh, I was just asking about Canadian abortion law and was feeling a bit left out.