Dependency

Abusers deliberately make their partners feel disoriented, dependent and worthless. "Apr 07, 2021 By Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD 0 shares 13k have read"
----it is immunologically tolerated by the pregnant organism. Second, it is directly and topologically connected to the rest of the maternal organism via umbilical cord and placenta, which is composed of fetal and maternal-origin cells, without a clear or defined boundary between the two. Third, the fetus is physiologically integrated  into the pregnant organism, and regulated as part of one metabolic system. Whilst none of these are perfect indicators of organismic parthood, they jointly pose a very strong case.{ Elselijn Kingma is a Dutch philosopher and an associate professor in philosophy at the University of Southampton. Her article, "Were you part of your mother?" was included in the Best of Philosophy 2019 collection. }
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