Revisiting Sr. McBride vs. Olmstead hospital abortion case

[o_mlly]

It’s vital, but it’s not an ‘appendage’, as such. In fact, if you want to make that claim, then we could claim that it is also an ‘appendage’ of the mother, so you’d be back to square one.

I told you you’d get an argument.

A little research discloses much:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/fetal-organ

The placenta is a fetal organ.

A Placenta Is a Whole New Organ That Takes Over During Pregnancy — This Is When It Forms

The placenta does not, technically, belong to the mother . Our bodies may create it, but it is part of the developing child , which means it is also made up of 50 percent genetic material from the father .

Dad's genes build placentas, explaining grandsire effect | ScienceDaily

Placentas support the fetus and mother, but those organs grow according to blueprints from dad , according to new research. The study shows that the genes in a fetus that come from the father dominate in building the fetal side of the placenta . … Genes work in pairs: one from each parent .

 

[o_mlly]

If the child in this case had already died …

If so then there would be no moral dilemma, no?

 

[Gorgias]

I told you you’d get an argument.

LOL!

Told ya I wasn’t sure about placental biology…