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

[Miles Jackson]

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