{"id":19355,"date":"2013-05-10T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19355"},"modified":"2013-05-10T08:30:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T12:30:37","slug":"babies-begin-to-learn-language-in-the-womb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/babies-begin-to-learn-language-in-the-womb\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies begin to learn language in the womb"},"content":{"rendered":"

New research<\/a> has demonstrated that babies begin to learn language while still in the womb. That makes what a BBC article calls a \u201cfoetus\u201d \u2013 although later there is a slipup and reference is made to \u201cbabies\u201d \u2013 a person, a defenceless person, \u00a0a defenceless person whose life should be protected by the law:<\/p>\n

Now researchers in the US and Sweden have found evidence that we start learning language before we’re even born.<\/p>\n

The study discovered that in the last 10 weeks of pregnancy, foetuses are listening to their mothers communicate. And when they are born, they can show what they’ve heard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This does little to make Canada\u2019s lack of protection for the unborn any less shameful or Stephen Harper\u2019s refusal to even discuss it<\/a> any less deplorable:<\/p>\n

Conservative backbenchers are pushing to reopen the abortion debate, despite public assurances by Prime Minister Stephen Harper that the issue is settled.<\/p>\n

More than 20 Conservative MPs and senators appeared at an anti-abortion rally on Parliament Hill on Thursday. Among them was Mark Warawa, the MP whose push for a vote on sex-selective abortion \u2013 and the right to simply raise the issue in the House of Commons \u2013 led other backbenchers to complain publicly they were being silenced by the Prime Minister\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

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The abortion issue leaves Mr. Harper with a dilemma. Asked for comment, his office declined to address the MPs\u2019 statements but said the issue won\u2019t be reopened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New research has demonstrated that babies begin to learn language while still in the womb. That makes what a BBC article calls a \u201cfoetus\u201d \u2013 although later there is a slipup and reference is made to \u201cbabies\u201d \u2013 a person, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2022,1484],"class_list":["post-19355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion","tag-stephen-harper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}