{"id":69104,"date":"2018-10-25T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=69104"},"modified":"2018-10-25T09:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T16:24:25","slug":"fetus-refers-to-level-of-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/25\/fetus-refers-to-level-of-development\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fetus&#8221; refers to level of development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/6ofaqvVPo9Q\/sddefault.webp\" class=\"facebook\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couple of nights ago, I was having a conversation about abortion and my friend seemed confused over the meaning of the term &#8220;human fetus&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I explained that &#8220;human&#8221; denotes that the creature is a member of our species and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/fetus\/\">fetus<\/a>&#8221; indicates the level of development of the aforementioned human, much in the same way we use the words &#8220;infant&#8221;, &#8220;toddler&#8221;, &#8220;adolescent&#8221; and &#8220;adult&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"561\" height=\"168\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Definition.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Definition.jpg 561w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Definition-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He seemed to really struggle with the idea that &#8220;elephant fetus&#8221; simply means an elephant at an early stage of development.\u00a0So, with that in mind, have you ever wondered what an elephant fetus looks like as it&#8217;s growing to maturity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ofaqvVPo9Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of nights ago, I was having a conversation about abortion and my friend seemed confused over the meaning of the term &#8220;human fetus&#8221;. I explained that &#8220;human&#8221; denotes that the creature is a member of our species and &#8220;fetus&#8221; indicates the level of development of the aforementioned human, much in the same way we use the words &#8220;infant&#8221;,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[232,1559,1728,1601],"class_list":["post-69104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","tag-abortion","tag-fetus","tag-pro-choice","tag-pro-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69149,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69104\/revisions\/69149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}