The fetus at 6 weeks has a brain and detectable brain activity. Accept the facts then argue they are beside the point if you wish, but claiming they’re misleading is risible. If people want the actual argument, if a 6 week old fetus is a person deserving of rights and protection, they should have the argument on its actual merits instead of complaining when an article actually lays out the scientific basis of the matter because, apparently, reality is misleading. Size doesn’t correspond to complexity or answer any of the relevant questions, it just attempts to handwave them into oblivion. Just as attempting to call people dumb for thinking a tiny fetus is a person ignores that a six week old fetus is a very complicated human organism. Whether consciousness is the proper benchmark is something that can be argued, but you’re attempting to steal a base by saying that defines a brain. The only “misleading” thing here is an attempt to say a brain isn’t a brain.
A brain is an organ, ranging from rudimentary to highly complicated, and at five weeks a fetus has a working rudimentary brain. By your definition, you could argue no living organism other than humans and some higher mammals have brains - which is ridiculous. But there are firing neurons - actual brain activity - prior to that if you’re talking anatomically, which is clearly the case as no one before you claimed a five week old fetus had consciousness. There was no discussion of consciousness, just an attempt to dismiss any argument about the personhood of the fetus as idiotic because a fetus at six weeks is tiny. There isn’t much YOU would consider a brain, but that’s clearly because you prefer to ignore the actual anatomical definition, which is clearly what’s being discussed. Conception is at about the two week mark, implantation about the 4 week (IF successful, many aren't at this point), and the neural tube closes usually by the end of 6 weeks. It was a post to remind people of how ridiculous the 6 week standard is. One might argue that this fact check is misleading as well. Neuronal activity by itself does not represent integrated behavior." 'The Ethical Brain' By Michael S.
Just as neural activity is present in clinically brain-dead patients, early neural activity consists of unorganized neuron firing of a primitive kind. This activity, however, is not coherent activity of the kind that underlies human consciousness, or even the coherent activity seen in a shrimp's nervous system. "Even though the fetus is now developing areas that will become specific sections of the brain, not until the end of week 5 and into week 6 (usually around forty to forty-three days) does the first electrical brain activity begin to occur. Tara Sander Lee-a senior fellow and director of life sciences for the Charlotte Lozier Institute, a pro-life organization-explained that once the neural tube closes “then the more specific regions and structures in the brain begin to form and fall into place-and that’s the forebrain, the midbrain, and the hindbrain.” At the end of week five, electric brain activity starts to occur as neurons begin to fire. In an interview with The Dispatch Fact Check, Dr. In fact, by between four and six weeks, those cells have already completely formed a neural tube, the precursor to the brain and spinal cord. Jennifer Villavicencio, told The Dispatch Fact Check that “neural cells begin dividing during embryonic development, but the brain is a complex organ that takes an entire pregnancy to develop – and continues developing through infancy, childhood, and adolescence.” Prior to the sixth week of gestation, Villavicencio said “fetal brain development is in the form of microscopic neural cells dividing into the two types of cells that form the nervous system.” The ACOG’s lead for equity transformation, Dr. NARAL Pro-Choice America declined to comment on the matter, but recommended reaching out to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Despite the small size, however, the embryo is already incredibly complex. Gestational calendars use the beginning of a woman’s last cycle as a start date, but conception usually occurs two weeks later, meaning that at this point, the embryo has been developing for four weeks and is about an eighth of an inch long. The first claim in the post-that a baby during the sixth week of gestation is the size of a grain of rice-is accurate. A viral Facebook post claims that “A fetus at 6 weeks has no more brain than a grain of rice.” The post references the Texas heartbeat abortion law, which prohibits abortion when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually at six weeks.
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