%0 Journal Article
%T Inception of Life on the Pendulum of Death: Common Paradigms and Uncommon Narratives on the Polemics between Birthers and Abortionists
%A Michael Onyedika Michaels
%A Felicia Ihuoma Michaels
%A Susan Otto
%J Sociology Mind
%P 95-115
%@ 2160-0848
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/sm.2023.132006
%X Obvious crevices of digression are discernible </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">i</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">n the ongoing discourses on conception, women and
reproductive rights, and abortion. Against this backdrop, this paper set</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">s</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> out to explore existing
thoughts on the bio-physiological processes of conception and pregnancy,
epigenetics, and the impact of trau</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">ma on the
continuum of human psychological development with a view to</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> accentuating
the critical intersection of the emerging discourses. By dissecting the
conflated and intricate leanings on the opposite sides of the treatise, the
paper goes beyond the current paradigm that merely proffer</span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">s</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> a time</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">frame at which it might be
appropriate to legitimize termination of pregnancy (in other words, abort a
baby without attracting punitive attention of the state)</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> and</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> advance more creative
theorizing, which raises the question of power balance and discipline. Ours is
a discussion paper, covering a methodical synopsis of </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">discourses, definitions, aims, philosophical leanings and content
analysis of</span> <span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">major postulations, and
highlights </span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">of </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">their operational intricacies. The paper</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> <span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">hypothesized that a single-cell
blastocyst is a developing human being and</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> engaging discourses on power
and discipline, it further explored the influences </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">of epigenetics on</span></span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">lifespan development, and how this impinges on
womenĄŻs</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> <span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">right over their
reproductive bodies. The paper adopts the Traditional Eco</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">logical
Knowledge (TEK), and black feminist
%K Inception
%K Fertilization
%K Epigenetics
%K Nature
%K Nurture
%K Discipline
%K Power
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=124205