Tag: pregnancy

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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
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, alcohol, antibiotics, COVID-19, disease, Doctor's Diary (series), factory, free will, gender dysphoria, intelligent design, measles, mental illness, mumps, polio, pollution, pregnancy, Rabbi Harold Kushner, rubella, sewage, tetanus, Vaccines, vestigial structures, vitamin C, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski}

Doctor’s Diary: Are Flaws in Our Design Responsible for Bad Things Happening to Good People?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 9, 2024

Intelligent Design, Medicine

9}

When I lecture, I typically discuss intelligent design as if it were a near-perfect process creating inexplicably complicated living entities. 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
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 13, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, anti-humanism, childbirth, civil rights, disease, doctor, gender dysphoria, headaches, infertility, Journal of Medical Ethics, measles, pathogen, patients, pregnancy, vomiting}

Leading Bioethics Journal Pathologizes Pregnancy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 13, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

The views expressed are consistent with the increasing anti-natalism seen lately in philosophy and bioethics. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Metascience
Paleontology
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, abortions, Campbell's Law, conflict of interest, data integrity, Discovery Institute, disinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), evolutionary biologists, fertility, Frontiers in Psychology, Goodhart's Law, Harvard University, Laszlo Bencze, mental health, Mind Matters, peer review, perverse incentives, pregnancy, pro-life, Retraction Crisis, Robert J. Marks II, Walter Bradley Center}

Peer Review May Be Beyond Reform

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 18, 2024

Bioethics, Metascience, Paleontology, Scientific Trustworthiness

5}

Harvard is going to have quite a job convincing the world that it is still serious about reality-based thinking, never mind peer review. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
January 8, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Alfred Tennyson, Benjamin Wiker, birth, Canceled Science, Charles Darwin, children, Christmas Eve, evolution, faith, future, Gettysburg Address, history, intelligent design, Kentucky, materialism, Napoleon, newborn, pregnancy, Prime Minister, providence, United States}

Design in the Grand Human Story

_{Eric Hedin
January 8, 2024

Biochemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

Two famous individuals who share the birthdate of February 12, 1809, are Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. 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
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bleeding, blood-clotting cascade, coagulation, Darwin's Black Box, death, factor X, fibrin, fibrinogen, fish, irreducibly complex systems, mammals, Michael Behe, neo-Darwinian theory, pregnancy, prothrombin, purifying selection, Russell Doolittle, thrombin, thrombosis, vertebrates}

Why the Blood Clotting Cascade Challenges Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

The coagulation cascade cannot evolve unless there is simultaneously a mechanism in hand for controlling it. Both would have to arise at the same time. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, Center for Bioethics and Culture, doctors, eugenics, feelings, females, gestation, human experimentation, ideology, Jennifer Lahl, males, medicine, pregnancy, testosterone, transgenderism, transphobia, women}

Sacrificing Pre-Natal Wellness for Gender Ideology

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 19, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

We're told that applying a precautionary principle to protecting gestating babies is transphobic and akin to eugenics. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, artificial intelligence, babies, ChatGPT, chimpanzees, computer, dementia, human life, humans, infanticide, infants, medicine, persons, Peter Singer, pregnancy, Princeton University, self-awareness, sentience, unborn baby, unconsciousness}

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 8, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

3}

Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Read More ›