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darw1nf1sh OP t1_jdp5mol wrote

Reply to comment by Stevenntrann in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh

This isn't about any of that. This is just a, hey this is interesting. Only you thought of abortion. And btw, yes, an ectopic pregnancy is reason for abortion. And yes it happens to married, straight couples that want kids. But in the event the worst happens, and the woman's life is threatened, it should be on the table.

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so_bold_of_you t1_jdp4mh6 wrote

Reply to comment by I2eB6L in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh

No. The mother’s body is the environment in which it is made, but the cells themselves are doing the dividing/growing. The cells would do the same thing in a petri dish, too.

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jimfazio123 t1_jdp1pnv wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh

Talk about bad analogies, Tupperware man, at least the sandwich analogy had a logical throughline.

At least you agree the fetus/placenta is acting parasitically, i.e. it's stealing resources to sustain and build itself, i.e. (here's the big one) not being built by the host.

A fertilized egg isn't just a blueprint. It's a living cell, capable of division as a typical cell tends to be.

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Xyrus2000 t1_jdp0kqr wrote

Reply to comment by michaelvsaucetookdmt in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh

>Well youre putting your own little slant on it by saying shit like “voracious parasite.”

That's not a slant. That is what a fertilized egg is. Have you ever seen the end result of an untreated ectopic pregnancy?

>Literally every placental mammal works this way

Did I say anything different? Pregnancy is parasitic by nature in most mammals. The only thing that prevents a pregnancy from killing the mother is the uterus. The fertilized egg can implant and grow just about anywhere.

>People learn about this in school.

No, they really don't. They get a sugar-coated version, if they get any version at all. Hence the TIL post and the various other medical-related posts by others here describe what can go wrong and WHY we have medical procedures to deal with it.

Or rather, we did until the fanatical religious nut jobs started with their idiotic "life begins at conception" bullsh*t.

> I don’t want you telling middle schoolers in sex ed this shit just because you think its freaky

Freaky? How on Earth did you get that from what I or others have posted? These are medical facts. These are complications that can and do arise during pregnancies, and WHY they arise. These are why medical procedures to deal with them exist, and why they shouldn't be banned by far-right nut jobs.

Teenagers, especially teenage girls, should be educated on this because it can literally be life or death for them, especially if they live in a red state that can deny them treatment.

>any more than i want super christians to control sex ed

There wouldn't be sex education if "super christians" controlled sex education. They just got a principal fired because some kids saw Michelangelo's sculpture.

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86mysoul t1_jdp0g26 wrote

Reply to comment by afox892 in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh

I had a complete molar in November of last year. It was my first pregnancy and it was probably one of the most emotionally traumatic things I've ever been through. I'm still processing it. Stuff of nightmares. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemies.

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The_Flurr t1_jdozfqb wrote

Reply to comment by ahecht in TIL: Thanks to poor internal communication at NASA, information about a spacesuit water leak wasn't properly communicated. Later, Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a July, 2013 ISS space walk, his helmet filling with several liters of water before they could get him back inside. by OvidPerl

The energy required for the water to boil would come from the thermal energy of the water itself.

This is just not how fluids work. Boiling fluids do not suck the thermal energy from surrounding fluids to do so, that would defy rules of entropy.

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