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The anti abortion and anti birth control contingent would never let even a little of that happen in countries with significant fundamentalist and Catholic voter
by stevenwoo 9mo ago
The anti abortion and anti birth control contingent would never let even a little of that happen in countries with significant fundamentalist and Catholic voters. There are plenty of examples where these people force babies to be born without a brain on principle. Just recently https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-woman-carrying-fetus-skull-seek-abortion-another-state-rcna45005 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-woman-carryin...
One can go back to something like Terri Schiavo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case
- philsnow 9mo agoWhat do you mean by "without a brain"? There are multiple examples in the literature of people leading perfectly ordinary lives whilst unknowingly having no more than 5% of the typical amount of brain matter (typically because of hydrocephalus). For example, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.7434023 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.7434023 from 1980.
- ceejayoz 9mo agoThey mean stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly. The brain is indeed incredibly resilient - some kids with serious epilepsy get an entire hemisphere taken out - but which 5% you're left with matters enormously.
- greygoo222 9mo ago[dead]
- greygoo222 9mo ago[dead]