Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...individual human being becomes a human being when it becomes a being. That is because things do not become other things as they grow--they continue to be the same thing, just at a later stage of development. Our growth and maturation, both inside and outside the womb, is the continuation of the same being, not a transformation into a different species. I did not come from a fetus, but I once was a fetus. I did not come from an infant, but was once an infant. Conception marks the beginning an individual's human life because that...
...have to start at age seven? American children don't need to be taught about profit and loss in the first grade because capitalism is virtually synonymous with the United States. We are capitalists in the womb, as it were, because everyone and everything around us is the product of a purely capitalist society. What American five-year-old needs to be taught that the one with the most toys wins...
...scientists could eavesdrop on the brain of a human embryo 10, maybe 12 weeks after conception, they would hear an astonishing racket. Inside the womb, long before light first strikes the retina of the eye or the earliest dreamy images flicker through the cortex, nerve cells in the developing brain crackle with purposeful activity. Like teenagers with telephones, cells in one neighborhood of the brain are calling friends in another, and these cells are calling their friends, and they keep calling one another over and over again, "almost," says neurobiologist Carla Shatz of the University of California, Berkeley...
...neural tube proliferate at the astonishing rate of 250,000 a minute, the brain and spinal cord assemble themselves in a series of tightly choreographed steps. Nature is the dominant partner during this phase of development, but nurture plays a vital supportive role. Changes in the environment of the womb--whether caused by maternal malnutrition, drug abuse or a viral infection--can wreck the clockwork precision of the neural assembly line. Some forms of epilepsy, mental retardation, autism and schizophrenia appear to be the results of developmental processes gone awry...
Doctors tissue-typed Cheyenne while she was still in the womb, placed her on a heart-transplant waiting list and put a team of surgeons, nurses and transport coordinators on call. Ten days later, during the 36th week of gestation, word arrived that a baby had died during or shortly after birth and the parents had agreed to donate the infant's heart...