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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (875656)7/28/2015 2:21:20 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1578420
 
Modern science has not established the point at which a fetus becomes sentiment, however, it could well be prior to the 20 weeks period often thought of as the cutoff time for abortions.

Huh? Did you know that babies when watching a ball that rolls behind the couch assume the ball no longer exists because they can not see it? That's hardly sentience. I think its around 1 year old where they realize that even though they can no longer see something doesn't mean its gone for good.

Scientists believe that a dog has the intelligence of a 2 year old human:

Dogs' Intelligence On Par With Two-year-old Human

And I do not think of dogs as sentient.

So all this brouhaha around fetuses and their sentience is just more winger BS.
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