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Viability is a ridiculous standard. It makes no difference when an artificial womb nobody is offering might in theory be able to support a fetus if we are actua
by michaelmrose 4y ago
Viability is a ridiculous standard. It makes no difference when an artificial womb nobody is offering might in theory be able to support a fetus if we are actually asking if one ought to make a woman offer her body. It's a worthless counterfactual related in no meaningful way to reality. Life is equally worthless mold is alive, the egg is alive, sperm is alive. The term "default alive" literally means less than nothing. It's just gluing words together in a way that has no meaning.
The baby's brain will triple in size during the third trimester including almost all of the development of the cerebral cortex features that are essential to being human or even being a mouse. It goes from something that as is is functionality incapable of being considered asleep or awake that doesn't posses the ability to drive even a mouse's experience to something that could aptly be said to be a sleeping human brain during this time. This is definitively when potential becomes reality.
The standard established by roe of between 24-28 weeks being set before this actuality is safe standard to balance rights of baby and mom to ensure we don't enslave actual humans to the needs of potential ones.