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It pees in there??? Whoa!
And a lovely one at that THL!
Lie down? Lay down?
Arkady??
Last comment. I, through technology, have watched my pregnancy progress. At first did I think it was a life? No, it was the possibility of one. It had no heart, organs, eyes, brain etc.
Now with a heartbeat, a brain forming, organs that work etc. (it’s peeing, how freaky is that?)is it a life? Yes.
He was hiding in a box in the attic.
Arkady- fantastic!
THEY FOUND HIM??? HOOORAAAAAYYYY!
Nite THL
etson- for me the sticking point is when someone says “life begins at the moment of conception.” And also that people argue the same subject from the biological or the religious viewpoint. Traditionally Jews believed that life begins with the first breath a baby takes. But to my way of thinking conception is not the creation of life (all cells are alive- egg and sperm alike), but a new combination of biological material. and up to a certain point, a developing fetus is a mass of developing cells. Not to take the wonder and awe out of the process- I am always stunned by it- but I think religious people also overlay the idea of an embryo at the moment of conception with the idea that it is already a full-fledged person. The conversation is apples and oranges and trying to do some sort of alchemy to make it all fit in the same basket. Maybe we’ll never get to agree but we do have to get to the point where we stop trying to impose our opinion on another person’s body.