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<blockquote data-quote="bergerking42" data-source="post: 3272927" data-attributes="member: 167669">While I&#039;m fully with you on being precise, such precision would be mis-placed in grass roots midwifery and pregnancy medicine I feel.Medicine that&#039;s not done in a lab or academic capacity but done face to face with actual women and couples going through pregnancy.It&#039;s hard enough to get a handle on the age of your baby when they add two weeks to it and date it from the last period.Adding in extra terms and trying to split hairs is fine in an intellectual debate on abortion but wouldn&#039;t add anything to people dealing with impending parenthood.Unless something occured that needed addressing and the stage the embryo/foetus/baby was at was important.For most people, including non-religious people without any sort of agenda, the &quot;start&quot; of pregnancy is when sperm meets egg and fertilisation occurs.Everything else comes after that event.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bergerking42, post: 3272927, member: 167669"] While I'm fully with you on being precise, such precision would be mis-placed in grass roots midwifery and pregnancy medicine I feel. Medicine that's not done in a lab or academic capacity but done face to face with actual women and couples going through pregnancy. It's hard enough to get a handle on the age of your baby when they add two weeks to it and date it from the last period. Adding in extra terms and trying to split hairs is fine in an intellectual debate on abortion but wouldn't add anything to people dealing with impending parenthood. Unless something occured that needed addressing and the stage the embryo/foetus/baby was at was important. For most people, including non-religious people without any sort of agenda, the "start" of pregnancy is when sperm meets egg and fertilisation occurs. Everything else comes after that event. [/QUOTE]

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