Similarly, in England and Wales in 2006, 89% of terminations occurred at or under 12 weeks, 9% between 13 and 19 weeks, and 2% at or over 20 weeks.
CNS starts developing at ~4 weeks, but the cerebral hemispheres start differentiating around week 8. Given 200,000 abortions a year in the UK alone, which the people doing and most (all?) of us don’t see as an immoral act, that’s at least 12,000 human children with a functioning brain killed a year in the UK, a number that is probably 10x in the US and hundreds of times higher if you account for all the world.
When you reach 20 weeks, where abortions still happens, well, one could argue the brain could be more developed than that of living human being, unless you want to assume it’s not a question of synaptic activity, nr of neurons & axons but instead of divine transubstantiation ( in which case the whole debate is moot).
So I would indeed say many humans agree that suffering is not a universal experience for every single being that shares our genetic code and exception such as human still in a mother’s womb are made. Whether that is true or not is another question entirely.
Many of us might claim this is not the case, but as I made it clear in this article, I’m a fan of looking at our actions rather than the moral stances we echo from soapboxes.
I don’t think it’s that uncontroversial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion#Gestational_age_and_method
CNS starts developing at ~4 weeks, but the cerebral hemispheres start differentiating around week 8. Given 200,000 abortions a year in the UK alone, which the people doing and most (all?) of us don’t see as an immoral act, that’s at least 12,000 human children with a functioning brain killed a year in the UK, a number that is probably 10x in the US and hundreds of times higher if you account for all the world.
When you reach 20 weeks, where abortions still happens, well, one could argue the brain could be more developed than that of living human being, unless you want to assume it’s not a question of synaptic activity, nr of neurons & axons but instead of divine transubstantiation ( in which case the whole debate is moot).
So I would indeed say many humans agree that suffering is not a universal experience for every single being that shares our genetic code and exception such as human still in a mother’s womb are made. Whether that is true or not is another question entirely.
Many of us might claim this is not the case, but as I made it clear in this article, I’m a fan of looking at our actions rather than the moral stances we echo from soapboxes.
Sorry, let me amend my statement to “every adult human not in a coma”