When do our nervous systems start functioning?

[Zeta Metroid]

It seems to me that, since you're dead right when it stops, you must be alive right when it starts...does anyone know exactly when your brain starts functioning?

[Alcoth]

Around week 3 of gestation, the brain, heart and spinal cord start to develop. I know this from when we found out my wife was pregnant, I got weekly e-mails from a resource I subscribed to. I'll dig up the reference if needed.

That being said, it is my stance that the little bundle of cells created upon conception was a life named Kieran, regardless of whether or not his brain had started developing.

[Jedidiah]

Alcoth has it right. Life is not a matter of brain function. Life is a matter of cell function.

[Zeta Metroid]

True, though I wonder if, because of when the nervous system starts, we could reach some sort of compromise with the pro-choicers that you've got three weeks to get an abortion instead of three months...

[Alcoth]

If I compromise then I'm conceding that my son was not alive prior to three weeks of gestation (5 weeks after impregnation). Not gonna happen.

ETA : Oh and logically following the above, condone murder!

[gharfish]

I understood that there is measurable brain wave activity before birth like that which would be flatlined, indicating brain death/clinical death, after birth, at three months of age for a fetal person.

That's what I've read.


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[Jedidiah]

True, though I wonder if, because of when the nervous system starts, we could reach some sort of compromise with the pro-choicers that you've got three weeks to get an abortion instead of three months...

Then we need to compromise somehow with other killers. Murders after 10:00 are okay. eh?

[Zeta Metroid]

I'm not saying its the best solution, but it might be a good step to getting it banned all together

And where did you read that exactly, Gharfish?

[Jedidiah]

Abortion will never be banned stepwise. As long as it is seen a acceptable there will be few, if any, limits acceptable.

[gharfish]

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And where did you read that exactly, Gharfish?

I cannot find my source, unfortunately, but here is one that looks good;

www.c2g.ca/development.html

There it says that brain waves can be *measured at 8 weeks. The fetal person is half an inch long (tall!)

Here are the telltale signs of life in the two organs that if in a born person they ceased to function that person would be declared dead: the heart stops, irreversibly, and a fully developed (normal) brain is flatlined.

The heart is almost completely developed at 10 weeks, and the brain is fully developed at 12 weeks. That person is completely alive; no doubt. By the 14th week, the fetal human being is moving about.

Here are some pictures that show, first, 12 weeks, and then 14:


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[37818]

It is my understanding about the 17th day from conception the zygote has his/her own blood, and with the next day the nervous system begins.

In the word of God blood is associated with the soul in the body. (see Lev. 17:11.)