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If I may respond to myself here.
In retrospect, my claim "I for one can only think of one thing, namely that the child is receiving oxygen in a slightly different way, namely by breathing."
Is not quite exhaustive. There is one other difference that warrants consideration and it is this: That a baby after birth no longer imposes certain conditions and responsibilities on its biological mother.
This is certainly not to be completely ignored, but I don't know if it is enough to suggest that prior to this we may suggest that foetuses are as different as Meri seems to think.
At any rate, my bad, didn't think of that until just then.
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