No, because the spontaneous abortions would occur before gastrulation is complete. The soul is not the mind, it is the energy of the entire nervous system. Whether there is a matching eternal component is for theology, not science or policy. Agree that Olmsted was an ass, although he reflects Catholic teaching that only God can kill and he is an Ogre about anyone else doing it. The same moral cowardice is apparant in the resistance to physician assisted suicide, as if we were talking about physician mandated suicide. The AZ abortion is like a child with a gun who is pulling the trigger like its a cap gun. If enough rounds are left that someone will likely be killed, you shoot the child. That is not violate the innocence of the child but treats the danger.

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