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Life's Edge: Exploring the Boundary between Living & Nonliving | Carl Zimmer | Into the Impossible (#320)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
The Problem With Life Beginnings at Conception
"It's hard to find anyone lay it out, what they really mean when they say the life begins at conception," he says. "There are plenty of ways in which you can think about life that would not be being the beginning of conception because the cells that gave rise to that zygote were themselves alive" The idea of brain death is a very recent one and was hashed out by surgeons who wanted to figure out how to keep people alive after transplants. 'I don't want to accept what the state of California says is dead,' an abortion opponent argues.
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