Not exact matches
The offense against religion is that it promotes a God that has poorly designed
humans to have too small a birth canal, too large a cranium (pushing wisdom teeth
into often painful positions), and since roughly 20 percent of
pregnancies end in miscarriage, is responsible for more abortions than anyone.
Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of
human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding
into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late
pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....
Cloning, anti-aging technology,
human / mechanical intertwining, basic discoveries of science pushing god further
into a gap, resource scarcity, will all make for some very interesting conversations about population control,
pregnancy and abortion in the coming centuries.
As the founder of Project Rachel, the post-abortion healing ministry of the Catholic church in the United States and abroad, I stumbled
into the biological science of
human bonding while trying to find a way to help women who have had abortions to be able to bond with their unborn children in subsequent
pregnancies.
In the course of a
pregnancy, the
human brain transforms from a simple fluid - filled tube
into a complex organ ready to perceive and interact with the outside world.
The micromotors aren't ready for use in
humans yet — obvious problems include avoiding unintended
pregnancies — but the researchers hope to move the system
into clinical use in the «near future.»
An international group of 11 organizations with genetics expertise has issued a policy statement on germline genome editing in
humans, which recommends against genome editing that culminates in
human pregnancy; supports publicly funded, in vitro research
into its potential clinical applications; and outlines scientific and societal steps necessary before implementation of such clinical applications is considered.
«This will add a new dimension to research
into «liquid biopsies» and facilitate the clinical use of extracellular vesicles to inform the physiology and health of organs that are hard to access, such as the placenta during
human pregnancy,» said Yoel Sadovsky, director of the Magee - Womens Research Institute at the University of Pittsburgh.