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...still introduce real risks. In 1% to 2% of cases, C-sections lead to infection, damage to other organs during surgery or severe bleeding in the mother. They can also endanger the baby if the infant's gestational age has been miscalculated and the child is removed from the womb too soon. Risks to the mother increase with each successive C-section, and the procedure isn't recommended for women who plan to have more than two children...
When it’s loud enough, Triple R’s gorgeous Friends mix on Kompakt makes me feel like I’m dancing inside a womb. Debussy might’ve fallen head over heels for the German house label, whose artists are masters at coloring texture as well as tone. Like so much new music, it fully engages the physical field, which is exactly why you can’t listen to it the same way you used to be able to enjoy a lyric or a tune—it’s become more...
...catch up is most troubling because stem cell research using cloned embryos, as in South Korea, relies on a process similar to human cloning. Defending cloning-based stem cell research and attempting to distinguish it from complete cloning, researchers explain that the cloned embryo is never implanted in a womb. But this is merely a procedural, technical distinction. The difference morally between cloning an embryo to be used for research and cloning it to create life is much less clear: In both cases, the researchers are cloning a person and playing...
...there is a moral distinction to be made between using embryos for research and implanting them in a human womb, then the former is far worse. In the case of full-blown cloning, scientists are at least creating a life; but in the case of cloning-based stem cell research, they are merely creating life to destroy it. Embryos used for research have the same genetic structure as the human organism; they are analogous to fertilized eggs, capable under the right conditions of developing into fully functioning human beings...
...life. This implies that they currently exist in a nebulous state of almost- or partial-aliveness. Logically speaking, can an embryo be partially alive? (Can a woman be partially pregnant?) If a frozen embryo is not worthy of legal protection until it is implanted in a womb, or until it is born, then we have made location the decisive criterion for personhood. But aside from their being at different stages of human development, what, really, is the difference between a frozen embryo awaiting implantation and, say, a nine-year-old girl who was conceived in a lab and once looked...