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Tag Archives: fetus
The Child-In-Utero, A Medical-Scientific Analysis
I. Medical/Scientific Analysis A. What is Pregnancy? Having a child/offspring developing in the body Conception/Fertilization View Strictly speaking, the most exact and technical definition of pregnancy is that it starts at the fertilization of the egg and sperm gametes in … Continue reading
Posted in Science, When does Life Begin?
Tagged Abortion, conception, conceptus, embryo, fertilization, fetus, gamete, pregnancy
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What is it that’s being aborted?
Introduction Is it a fetus? Is it a baby? Is it a person, a child, or perhaps a human being? In the ethics debates over abortion, the status of the aborted individual is no small matter. If that entity is a rights-bearing … Continue reading
Posted in Terms and Definitions, Uncategorized, When does Life Begin?
Tagged Abortion, child-in-utero, fetus, human, living, organism, product of conception
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What Is an Abortion? (John D. Ferrer, 6 May 2013)
Abortion is a fact of life, happening naturally across the whole animal kingdom–humans included. Among people these natural abortions are called miscarriages. But that is not the sense debated much in America. The issue at hand is non-natural abortion, also … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics of Abortion, Terms and Definitions
Tagged Abortion, conceptus, definition, embryo, fetus, human, human being, pro-choice, pro-life, zygote
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