Tag: fetuses

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, abortion, abortion pills, chemical abortions, congressional hearings, drinking water, drugs, EPA, fetal biomass, fetuses, human tissue, Liberty Counsel Action, metabolites, microplastic, mifepristone, sewer system, surgical abortions, wastewater, water contamination, water supply, water systems, water treatment}

Glass of Water? Think Twice

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 21, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Reproductive Science

3}

Our water treatment plants are not equipped to process human tissue nor necessarily to remove metabolized mifepristone (metabolites) used in abortion pills. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 3, 2025

Categories
Applied Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abortion, Animal Algorithms, bacterial flagella, Biomimetics, cable bacteria, centrioles, Current Biology, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, engineers, Eric Cassell, evolution, fetuses, Harvard University, intelligent design, Living Waters, mantis shrimp, materials science, Michael Behe, molecular machines, navigation, New Scientist, nose, PNAS, sea turtles, sophistication, springtails, super-resolution microscopy, University of North Carolina, University of Oldenburg}

As Science Observes, Talk of Evolution Fades

_{David Coppedge
March 3, 2025

Applied Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Another point worthy of note: the more sophistication that is found in biological engineering, the more scientists want to imitate it. 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
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, Alabama Supreme Court, death, doctors, egg, embryos, fetuses, human beings, human rights, ideology, in vitro fertilization, independence, IVF, Judeo-Christian tradition, newborns, personhood, petri dish, pregnancy, right to life, sentience, sperm, Steven Novella, womb, Yale University}

The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2024

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine, Reproductive Science

8}

A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, baby, birth, children, Christof Koch, consciousness, dreaming, fetuses, hard problem of consciousness, Integrated information theory, neuroscience, newborn, pregnancy, Robert Wright, synaptic connections, Thomas Nagel, Trinity College Dublin, unborn humans}

Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 20, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

4}

Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, artificial wombs, biotech, clones, Daily Mail, Dolly the sheep, egg cell, embryos, fetuses, humans, immortality, medicine, nucleus, somatic cell nuclear transfer, transhumanists}

Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

3}

Of course, Zhavoronkov’s lab is in China — the land where medical and other ethics might go to die. Read More ›

Asian newborn baby sleeping in blanket on bed

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Australians, babies, birth, chimpanzees, dignity, fetuses, human life, illness, infanticide, injury, Michael Schiavo, newborn babies, Poland, quality of life, senators, Terri Schiavo, zebrafish}

Bioethicist Asks, “Does Birth Matter?” Answers, “No”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 11, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

In our current episode of let’s-allow-baby-killing, an Australian bioethicist named Walter Veit comes to the defense of infanticide. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 21, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, Francesca Minerva, gestation, gestational age, Guttmacher Institute, Indiana, injury, Montana, New York City, newborns, Nik Hoot, pain, Peter Singer, petri dish, phenylalanine, phenylketonuria, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy tissue, prosthetic legs, Roman Catholic, Russia, Should the Baby Live?, Sopher clamp, United States, Washington Post}

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

_{Jonathan Wells
September 21, 2020

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

13}

Peter Singer has argued that animals, like humans, deserve protection because of their ability to suffer. Read More ›