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How do the So-called Prol-Lifers Feel About Teratomas?

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How do the So-called Prol-Lifers Feel About Teratomas?
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How do the So-called Prol-Lifers Feel About Teratomas?
April 23, 2015 at 5:44 pm
I'd never heard of these until I read this article: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/woman%E...ar-AAbzM0C

It's basically an undeveloped fetus (perhaps a twin) that ends up in the body of a person who developed to term. In this case, it was inside her brain. I wonder how someone who believes in souls reconciles it with this phenomena. God seriously works in mysterious ways.
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RE: How do the So-called Prol-Lifers Feel About Teratomas?
April 23, 2015 at 6:00 pm
That's scary as fuck, but also sorta morbidly fascinating
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RE: How do the So-called Prol-Lifers Feel About Teratomas?
April 23, 2015 at 6:09 pm
I've asked this before when I lived in Houston. They don't see them as a complete, discrete biological entity, rather just as a tumour. Therefore no soul, therefore no problem. Or something like that. I've been back in the sanity of England for a while so my memory may be hazy. But, just the usual bullshit from the Christards as I recall.

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RE: How do the So-called Prol-Lifers Feel About Teratomas?
April 23, 2015 at 6:15 pm
(April 23, 2015 at 5:44 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I wonder how someone who believes in souls reconciles it with this phenomena. God seriously works in mysterious ways.

By not thinking about it, same as every time a conservative position is found to have a flaw or contradiction. They'll deign to ad hoc their way around it if you bring it up, though; that's the bonus about having a position based entirely on fantasy, you can just imagine a solution out of anything.
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RE: How do the So-called Prol-Lifers Feel About Teratomas?
April 23, 2015 at 6:20 pm
Talk about someone (or in this instance, more appropriately, something) getting stuck inside your head.
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April 23, 2015 at 6:23 pm
(April 23, 2015 at 6:15 pm)Esquilax Wrote:
(April 23, 2015 at 5:44 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I wonder how someone who believes in souls reconciles it with this phenomena. God seriously works in mysterious ways.

By not thinking about it, same as every time a conservative position is found to have a flaw or contradiction. They'll deign to ad hoc their way around it if you bring it up, though; that's the bonus about having a position based entirely on fantasy, you can just imagine a solution out of anything.

Yep, pretty much exactly what Esquilax said.
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How do the So-called Prol-Lifers Feel About Teratomas?
April 23, 2015 at 7:44 pm
How could anyone abort this. Awwwww its so cute. [Image: dc354a7aae0387d6edf5de13abf7ee04.jpg]
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April 23, 2015 at 8:00 pm
(April 23, 2015 at 7:44 pm)KUSA Wrote: How could anyone abort this. Awwwww its so cute. [Image: dc354a7aae0387d6edf5de13abf7ee04.jpg]

WTF is that?!
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RE: How do the So-called Prol-Lifers Feel About Teratomas?
April 23, 2015 at 8:15 pm
Awww! Lets name it Quato.
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RE: How do the So-called Prol-Lifers Feel About Teratomas?
April 23, 2015 at 8:19 pm
No, they staunchly claim that life and soul begins at conception. The absorbed twin is a murder victim of the other twin who must be stoned.
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