Is a fetus in the womb is part of a woman's body or is it a separate body?

[Anonymous]

Woman's body

Separate body

[Agape93]

Her body. It's literally physically attached. It only becomes a separate being when it's physically not attached to her.

[buzzword]

The kid has a different DNA sequence than the mother. It's not even debatable. It's common sense that it's a separate human. Only a retard would think otherwise.

[John_Cobretti]

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[Smashingdoozy]

It is a part of the body. It is connected to it, cannot survive without it.

[monorprise]

@Smashingdoozy The last part is not even true of many of your oregons. The 2nd part is true of a lot of stuff. DNA is generally how we define something as part of you or something else.

[Smashingdoozy]

@monorprise do you mean the first? Because both are technically true.

[monorprise]

@Smashingdoozy
Your body parts can often be transplanted to there people and survive there without you.
The same is true of a baby, the only difference is the baby has their own DNA and within 8 months if not murdered can survive on his/her own without special support systems.

So it is irrelevant that they are connected as that can change, and its not true that they can't survive if given acquitted food & shelter.

[Smashingdoozy]

@monorprise I mean they can't generally survive before 24 weeks and even then the chances are 50/50.

If you're going by DNA then you must be fine with early abortions because fetal DNA isn't detected until at least 4 weeks and consistently after 7.

[Nikki1989]

It is literally attached to the woman's body.

Who are the morons voting separately?

[Sirenboobzilla]

The guys, predictably enough

[monorprise]

@Nikki1989
A leach is attached to your body too, how does it make it a part of your body?

[Sirenboobzilla]

@monorprise "The fetus is not a separate biological entity to the mother, but is totally dependent on her body until near term." Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital at Westmead and University of Sydney,
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

[monorprise]

@Sirenboobzilla If your going to appeal to an "authority" rather than reason to make your case. appeal to an origination that has some, not an some urban University.
Maybe they can debate the dictionary which claims a body consist of many different biological entities called Organs.

The University of Sydney's definition is entirely inconsistent with the common definition of the term.
www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/biological-system

If an Organ is an entity, then an entirely separate system of organs known as a baby certainly is separate.

[Sirenboobzilla]

Why? Because you disagree with said "urban" university?

You commented earlier regarding a leech. A horrible example. A leech is a foreign body.

The concept of a baby seems to elude you. I, as a woman, have ovaries full of eggs (that women are all born with by the way) containing my DNA. Once sperm is introduced and fertilizes an egg, an embryo is born who thy then transitions to a fetus and then eventually born as a baby.

Half the DNA is mine. The egg is mine. The blood supply is mine. Its very survival depends on my health and choices.

[RebelinSteel]

It is part of the woman,

[monorprise]

In what sense? @rebelinsteel