[lbo-talk] Caroline Fourest: In Praise of Consent

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 13:54:50 PDT 2011


c b cb31450 at gmail.com

On 5/27/2011 11:13 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> c b wrote:
>>
>> CB: In fact, that in humans which "simply exists" is their biological
>> or natural selves. Biological sexual intercourse and conception
>> precede existence. Then the resultant new born babies are completely
>> natural beings.
>
> This is wrong through and through. The womb is an environment, and
> what happens in this environment shapes the development of the embryo
> and fetus. Newborns are far from "completely natural"; they are a
> product of the complex interaction of the intrauterine environment and
> genetics.
>
> Miles

^^^^^^^ CB: So, r fetuses humans ?



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