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utsfl:classroom:seminars:pba201h [2023/05/23 20:38] – [Pain] added CNN article about pain relief for fetal surgery mmccannutsfl:classroom:seminars:pba201h [2023/12/01 09:10] (current) – [Primitive Streak & Twinning] mmccann
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       - The genetic code of the zygote is unique--distinct from those of the mother and father. For instance, a pregnant woman could be pregnant with a male child.         - The genetic code of the zygote is unique--distinct from those of the mother and father. For instance, a pregnant woman could be pregnant with a male child.  
     - Whole:      - Whole: 
-      * Some may ask what makes a single-celled zygote different from a single cell of, say, human skin. Both are living, human, diploid cells. However, one is a human //whole// while the other is a human //part//. Give each cell time, nutrition, and safety, then wait 9 months or 15 years...which one continues developing into a toddler, or a teenager? A skin cell will always remain a skin cell, while a zygote will continue human development into an embryo, fetus, newborn, toddler, etc.+      * Some may ask what makes a single-celled zygote different from a single cell of, say, human skin. Both are living, human, diploid cells. However, one is a human //whole// while the other is a human //part//. Give each cell time, nutrition, and safety, then wait 9 months or 15 years...which one continues developing into a toddler, or a teenager? A skin cell will always remain a skin cell, while a zygote will continue human development into an embryo, fetus, newborn, toddler, etc.  
 +      * //Nothing is added// to the embryo from the time of fertilization except adequate nutrition and a proper environment, which is what we need now. Since nothing essential has been added, and you’re a whole organism now, then you must have been that same whole organism at fertilization. 
     - Living:      - Living: 
       - If something is growing, isn't it alive?       - If something is growing, isn't it alive?
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   * Take the case of the flatworm.(("Flatworm," New World Encyclopedia, viewed online at http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Flatworm on May 8, 2010.)) If a flatworm is cut in half, each half will regenerate into two separate, fully-functioning flatworms. But prior to this separation a flatworm nonetheless existed.    * Take the case of the flatworm.(("Flatworm," New World Encyclopedia, viewed online at http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Flatworm on May 8, 2010.)) If a flatworm is cut in half, each half will regenerate into two separate, fully-functioning flatworms. But prior to this separation a flatworm nonetheless existed. 
   * Likewise, even though in rare situations one human splits into two, one human existed before that split happened, and the beginning of that one human was still at fertilization.   * Likewise, even though in rare situations one human splits into two, one human existed before that split happened, and the beginning of that one human was still at fertilization.
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 +ERI Video on this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0Rw2iorBaA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link 
  
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   * To make the point even more simply: would it be permissible to kill a 3-year-old boy as long as we give him anaesthetic first?   * To make the point even more simply: would it be permissible to kill a 3-year-old boy as long as we give him anaesthetic first?
  
-FIXME Giving anesthesia for fetal surgeries seems to be commonplace, and not just to prevent the baby from moving:+FIXME Giving analgesics for fetal surgeries seems to be commonplace, and not just to prevent the baby from moving:
 [[https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/04/health/brain-surgery-in-utero/index.html|CNN: Doctors performed brain surgery on a baby before she was born and now she’s thriving]] [[https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/04/health/brain-surgery-in-utero/index.html|CNN: Doctors performed brain surgery on a baby before she was born and now she’s thriving]]
 "Doctors had to make sure the fetus was facing the right position, with its head facing the mother’s abdominal wall. Dr. Louise Wilkins-Haug, division director of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Reproductive Genetics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, partnered with Orbach to make sure that the fetus was not only in the right position for the procedure, but stayed there. Wilkins-Haug explained they used a technique borrowed from previous in utero cardiac surgeries. Once the fetus is in the optimal position, it 'gets a small injection of medication so that it’s not moving **and it is also getting a small injection of medication for pain relief,'** Wilkins-Haug said."  "Doctors had to make sure the fetus was facing the right position, with its head facing the mother’s abdominal wall. Dr. Louise Wilkins-Haug, division director of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Reproductive Genetics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, partnered with Orbach to make sure that the fetus was not only in the right position for the procedure, but stayed there. Wilkins-Haug explained they used a technique borrowed from previous in utero cardiac surgeries. Once the fetus is in the optimal position, it 'gets a small injection of medication so that it’s not moving **and it is also getting a small injection of medication for pain relief,'** Wilkins-Haug said."