Tag: fetus

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 10, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, birth, brain, conception, Elliott Sober, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, Evolution of the Brain, evolutionary theory, fetus, individuality, intelligent design, John C. Eccles, Karl Popper, lottery, Mehmet Elgin, mind, natural selection, neuroscience, purpose, purposeful nature, recant, recantation, spiritual creation, testability, The Self and Its Brain, theology, uniqueness}

Popper and Purposeful Nature: A Note on the So-Called “Recantation”

_{Michael Flannery
March 10, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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A correspondent raises this famous statement of Karl Popper on natural selection, with his “historically loaded word ‘recant.’” Read More ›

Human embryo shaped like an adorable baby floating among stars and cosmic dust, symbolizing fetus development, womb, gestation, amniotic life, and pregnancy in the universe

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 5, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, anthropomorphizing, artificial gestation, Cell Press, China, egg, embryo, embryonic stem cell research, embryos, fetus, human embryos, IVF, miscarriages, MIT Technology Review:, organoids, pregnancy, Spain, Stem Cell Research, unborn children, United Kingdom, United States, uterine lining, uterus, Vermont, women}

How Far Will Experiments on the Unborn Go?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 5, 2026

Bioethics, Ethics

3}

We have been told by some bioethicists that a born baby is no different morally than a fetus, so why stop there? Read More ›

AI-generated illustration of a human fetus curled up in the womb

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, bioethics, doctors, drug addiction, embryology, fetus, miscarriages, pregnancy, racists, slavery, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn children, United States, Vermont}

Medical Journal Screed Decries All Fetal Personhood Laws

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

The authors imply that laws that protect unborn children are racist. But pro-lifers want more black babies born and protected from harm, not fewer. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, algorithms, carbohydrates, cognition, David Klinghoffer, death, development, DNA, egg, embryo, embryology, fetus, genes, immaterial genome, infant, information, instructions, lipids, mutations, Mycoplasma genitalium, Plato, Plato's Revenge, proteins, Richard Sternberg, RNA, zygote}

The Math Behind the Immaterial Genome

_{Brian Miller
April 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Scientific Reasoning

7}

While not a formal defense, this analysis aims to give readers an intuitive grasp of the reasoning behind Richard Sternberg's Platonic perspective. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, cats, coral, crabs, cuttlefish, Dogs, fetus, Jonathan Birch, lobsters, London School of Economics, Marc Bekoff, neuroscience, octopuses, pain, Psychology Today, sentience, squid}

What Do Animals Feel? And What About Babies?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2025

Bioethics, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

With human babies, those who propose laws against cruelty suddenly enter a Cold Zone, at least compared to their feelings for crustaceans. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abortion, Alberto Giubilini, babies, Caenorhabditis elegans, Darwin Day in America, developmental biology, Drosophila melanogaster, empirical science, fallopian tube, fertilization, fetus, gastrulation, Haeckel’s embryos, Homo sapiens, human being, humans, identical twins, John West, Lewis Wolpert, materialistic philosophy, materialistic science, mother, pain, Roman Catholic, zygote}

Why Should a Baby Live?

_{Jonathan Wells
October 8, 2024

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 3, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, baby, birth, blood, circulatory system, David Galloway, fetus, heart, intelligent design, lungs, physiology, placenta, uterus}

The Genius of the Fetal Circulatory System

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 3, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

12}

Last week, my wife and I welcomed our first child into the world. It is difficult to imagine a more profound testimony to design. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, baby, doctors, embryo, embryology, fetus, mucus, New York Times, patients, photographs, pregnancy, uterus, women}

The “Pregnancy Tissue” Euphemism

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

The last thing that abortion-rights activists want is an accurate description of what a pregnancy termination destroys. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 31, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, asexual reproduction, budding, corals, egg, embryo, fetus, Homo sapiens, human being, human development, human life, Jerry Coyne, microorganisms, morality, mother, murder, pain, pro-life, Roman Catholic, sperm, sponges, tissue, womb, worms, zygote}

#2 Story of 2022: If a Fetus Isn’t a Human Being, What Is It?

_{Michael Egnor
December 31, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

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How is it that a leading professor of biology could fundamentally misunderstand the biology of human development? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 21, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, Colorado, embryos, faith, fetus, Groningen protocol, human beings, Journal of Medical Ethics, Netherlands, Peter Singer, pregnancy, public policy, rights, Second Amendment, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn, Vermont, World Health Organization}

Pro-Abortion Absolutism and Its Consequences

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

6}

Abortion absolutism is a radical departure from the once well-accepted idea that nascent human beings — at least at some level — deserve respect and protection. Read More ›