• ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    He can buy it, but maybe he should wait to drink it.

    My rule is, if you are dead when brain dead with a beating heart then you are not alive until you are brain alive with a beating heart. Life starts with brain activity, around 16 weeks.

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      6 days ago

      I go by the Jewish rule.

      In the Old Testament, God breathed life into Adam, and thus he became a living soul.

      So until the infant takes its first breath, it’s not an actual soul. It is a lump of tissue with potential.

      I hope that there are as few abortions as are absolutely necessary, but I will not begrudge a single person their choice to have an abortion regardless of the stage of the pregnancy at which it happens.

      • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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        it’s not an actual soul. It is a lump of tissue with potential.

        It’s part of the mother according to Jewish law.

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            Yes but abortion procedures are not unique to Jewish doctors. Egypt, China, India, Rome; all of them practiced abortions both medically induced and surgical.

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        6 days ago

        Respiration still occurs through the umbilical. You shouldn’t use sky fairy tales for scientific bases.

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          Internal (diffusion of gases from the bloodstream into the tissues of the body) respiration =/=external respiration (diffusion of atmospheric gases through the alveolus into the bloodstream)

          And respiration is only half of breathing, the other half being ventilation.

          Don’t use science to put someone down when you don’t even understand what you’re talking about

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      6 days ago

      Alas, that’s not the legal definition. Another reminder that legal is not necessarily ethical, and vice-versa.

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      6 days ago

      Nathan, is that you?

      PS: To anyone who hasn’t yet, I can highly recommend watching the TV show Nathan for you