{"id":8136,"date":"2003-03-10T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/03\/10\/conscious-and-conscience\/"},"modified":"2003-03-10T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2003-03-10T19:20:12","slug":"conscious-and-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/03\/conscious-and-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscious and Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Foetuses may develop consciousness long before the legal age<br \/>\nlimit for abortions, one of Britain&#8217;s leading brain scientists has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Baroness Greenfield, a professor of neurology at Oxford University<br \/>\nand the director of the Royal Institution, said there was evidence to suggest<br \/>\nthe conscious mind could develop before 24 weeks, the upper age where terminations<br \/>\nare permitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Although she fell short of calling for changes in the abortion<br \/>\nlaws, she urged doctors and society to be cautious when assuming unborn babies<br \/>\nlacked consciousness. &quot;Is the foetus conscious? The answer is yes, but<br \/>\nup to a point,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;Given that we can&#8217;t prove consciousness or not, we should<br \/>\nbe very cautious about being too gung ho and assuming something is not conscious.<br \/>\nWe should err on the side of caution.&quot;<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2003\/03\/10\/nfoet10.xml&amp;sSheet=\/news\/2003\/03\/10\/ixhome.html\">Full<br \/>\nArticle<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">If you are going to use consciousness as the criteria to when<br \/>\n&quot;human life&#8217; begins and you believe that consciousness also develops earlier<br \/>\nthen previously assumed, then why wouldn&#8217;t you want a change in the abortion<br \/>\nlaws?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foetuses may develop consciousness long before the legal age limit for abortions, one of Britain&#8217;s leading brain scientists has said. Baroness Greenfield, a professor of neurology at Oxford University and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}