Tag: babies

Futuristic holographic baby in doctor's hand: exploring virtual reality and medical technology

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, Big Fertility, bioethics, Brave New World, cells, children, China, CRISPR, designer babies, eggs, embryos, gestational carriers, government, Katy Faust, manufacture, men, parents, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, regulation, reproduction, skin cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer, sperm, Them Before Us, women}

Human Reproduction Is Becoming Human Manufacture

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

Making eggs out of skin cells is just the latest example of an accelerating reproductive anarchy that is changing our very culture. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 28, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adulthood, adults, babies, Columbia University, episodic memory, footsteps, hippocampal memories, hippocampus, infancy, infantile amnesia, Medical XPress, memory, Nick Turk-Browne, sci-fi, Science (journal), statistical learning, Tristan Yates, Yale University}

Why Don’t We Remember Being Babies?

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 28, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

If we were not conscious, we could hardly have learned all that we had to learn in those first few months of life. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, babies, computer software, Endangered Species Act, fish, gestating human babies, image of God, insects, invertebrates, Jeff Sebo, life, mammals, microbes, moral agents, moral patients, moral responsibility, NYU, philosophers, The Moral Circle, universe}

Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 14, 2025

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

5}

Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 13, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract, animal intelligence, babies, cats, Dogs, human mind, humans, intelligence, Live Science, muscles, Oakland University}

Cat Versus Baby Intelligence: A Comparison

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 13, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Cat intelligence is of a rather different kind from dog intelligence (to say nothing of human intelligence). Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 9, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, animal intelligence, animals, babies, Big Bang, bonobos, cats, children, counting, Dogs, intelligence, kittens, Live Science, neuroscience, numbers, pets, puppies, Stanley Coren, Stonehenge, University of British Columbia}

Dog Versus Baby Intelligence: A Comparison

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 9, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

5}

It’s an odd question because what we should be asking is, “Are kittens and puppies smarter than babies?” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, abortion pill, Albert Olszewski, Alberto Giubilini, Ana Rosa Rodriguez, Animal Liberation, aversive action, babies, birth canal, blood samples, brain, curette, developmental biology, dilatation and curettage, dilatation and evacuation, distress, fetal age, feticide, fetuses, Food and Drug Administration, gestational age, Guttmacher Institute, Indiana, injury, Montana, New York City, newborns, Nik Hoot, pain, Peter Singer, petri dish, phenylalanine, phenylketonuria, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy, prosthetic legs, Roman Catholic, Russia, Should the Baby Live?, Sopher clamp, tissue, United States, Washington Post}

At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?

_{Jonathan Wells
October 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

13}

Logic isn’t a sufficient answer to the question I raised, however. For a scientific answer, we need evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abortion, Alberto Giubilini, babies, Caenorhabditis elegans, Danio rerio, Darwin Day in America, developmental biology, Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila simulans, embryonic age, empirical science, fallopian tube, fertilization, fetus, Francesca Minerva, gastrulation, Haeckel’s embryos, Homo sapiens, human being, humans, identical twins, John West, last menstrual period, Lewis Wolpert, materialistic philosophy, materialistic science, monozygotic twins, mother, ovulation, pain, phylotypic stage, Roman Catholic, zygote}

Why Should a Baby Live?

_{Jonathan Wells
October 8, 2024

Bioethics, Life Sciences

10}

My title is adapted from a 2012 article by two philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 29, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, abortion, babies, Denmark, Down syndrome, Iceland, Neanderthals, Peter Singer, The Guardian, United States}

Neanderthals Cared for Down Syndrome Children

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2024

Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology

2}

It may now be that more babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb than are born. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aeon, babies, childhood, chimpanzees, evolution, humans, menopause, mothers}

“Evolutionary” Analysis of Childhood Is Just Speculation

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

This sort of thing is thought of as science partly out of courtesy and partly out of fear of the Darwinists. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, babies, cleft palate, Denmark, Down syndrome, eugenics, Iceland, New York Times, parents, Sarah Palin}

Extinguishing Down Syndrome Babies Is Eugenics

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Eugenics is more than trying to control the health or other attributes of a general population. Read More ›