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utsfl:classroom:seminars:pba301h [2017/06/01 09:04] – Moved an LTI article from PBA100Y to here mmccann | utsfl:classroom:seminars:pba301h [2021/03/18 20:59] (current) – some notes on the Fellows debate with YPY balleyne | ||
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This is bad news for abortion advocates. Many become anti-science or try to shift the question. | This is bad news for abortion advocates. Many become anti-science or try to shift the question. | ||
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+ | ===== Misapplying Terms ===== | ||
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+ | * FIXME Dr. Fellows debate with Maaike on March 18, 2021: | ||
+ | * He was conflating the term " | ||
+ | * "Live birth" doesn' | ||
+ | * He's misapplying a term from OB/GYN to embryology | ||
+ | * He contradicted himself by using terms like "fetal death" or " | ||
+ | * FIXME people confuse viability with vitality | ||
===== Anti-Science Doubt ===== | ===== Anti-Science Doubt ===== | ||
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The acquisition of the pattern is an age-dependent feature of human development. This is just the level of development error in SLED. The EEG pattern doesn' | The acquisition of the pattern is an age-dependent feature of human development. This is just the level of development error in SLED. The EEG pattern doesn' | ||
+ | * Using the definition of death to mark the beginning of life | ||
+ | * cardio-pulmonary death is the legally recognized point | ||
+ | * complete irreversible brain death (this specifically), | ||
+ | * fertilization is when we first //gain// that coordinating functioning | ||
==== 14 days ==== | ==== 14 days ==== | ||
> A second position is that human life begins when the embryo becomes an individual. This is the time, 14 days after fertilization, | > A second position is that human life begins when the embryo becomes an individual. This is the time, 14 days after fertilization, | ||
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===== Philosophical Question? ==== | ===== Philosophical Question? ==== | ||
- | Some dodge the scientific question and claim that "when human life begins" | + | What Gilbert is actually doing is using his credentials as a biologist while advancing |
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- | Science can tell us where a biological human being begins, where a new individual organism | + | |
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- | The question of when that biological human being -- organism of the human species -- has value or rights or personhood, that is certainly | + | |
- | The philosophical deliberations, | + | Dr. Stacy Trasancos summarizes Scott F Gilbert' |
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