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<blockquote data-quote="helpisonitswayt" data-source="post: 3272899" data-attributes="member: 138349">In the US and the UK, in it&#039;s present day use, the word &quot;conception&quot; is Medieval, imprecise, and has a strong Christian and anti-abortion political connotation.&nbsp; Today, right now, we can measure the stages in embryonic development far more precisely than we could when we believed in all manner of hocus pocus during the terms inception in 1300-1350.Then we move over to a Wiki article on it, which, could be laid out a bit more clearly...So, there you have it.&nbsp; Basically, you have all manner of people using &quot;conception&quot; to mean sex, fertilization of the egg by the sperm, or inception of the blastocyst to the uterine wall.&nbsp; The real gem, the part in blue, explains that because of institutionalization, religious and political bias, ignorance, and good ole fashion convenience, you have &quot;professionals&quot; popularly using the term in modern medicine to mean the period of time two weeks before the woman began ovulating or any sex was had.&nbsp; Seems legit.If it were my genes I&#039;d carefully used to fertilize one of those alluring XXers, and some MD came into the room and started dropping &quot;conception&quot; bombs repeatedly into the conversation, it would be a red flag for me that they either had an agenda that can and too often does influence their medical recommendations, or were a lazy academic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="helpisonitswayt, post: 3272899, member: 138349"] In the US and the UK, in it's present day use, the word "conception" is Medieval, imprecise, and has a strong Christian and anti-abortion political connotation. Today, right now, we can measure the stages in embryonic development far more precisely than we could when we believed in all manner of hocus pocus during the terms inception in 1300-1350. Then we move over to a Wiki article on it, which, could be laid out a bit more clearly... So, there you have it. Basically, you have all manner of people using "conception" to mean sex, fertilization of the egg by the sperm, or inception of the blastocyst to the uterine wall. The real gem, the part in blue, explains that because of institutionalization, religious and political bias, ignorance, and good ole fashion convenience, you have "professionals" popularly using the term in modern medicine to mean the period of time two weeks before the woman began ovulating or any sex was had. Seems legit. If it were my genes I'd carefully used to fertilize one of those alluring XXers, and some MD came into the room and started dropping "conception" bombs repeatedly into the conversation, it would be a red flag for me that they either had an agenda that can and too often does influence their medical recommendations, or were a lazy academic. [/QUOTE]

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