News Forum - Infant’s body found in plastic bag at Phitsanulok bus stop

[Thaiger]

A seven month old infant’s body was discovered in a plastic bag near a bus stop in Phitsanulok, prompting an investigation into a possible premature birth or intentional abortion. The Thai authorities were alerted at 5pm yesterday by Min Misinth, an investigator at the Phitsanulok City Police Station, who received reports of a baby’s body … …

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[Fluke]

Its a foetus body, rather than a babies body 

There's a big difference between a 7 month baby and a 7 month foetus 

[Pinetree]

40 minutes ago, Fluke said:

Its a foetus body, rather than a babies body 

There's a big difference between a 7 month baby and a 7 month foetus 

You are stepping into a massive minefield with that comment. A 7 month fetus is totally viable as a human being, almost as much as a new born and this report states that the baby was post birth, not pre.  

[MrStretch]

8 minutes ago, Pinetree said:

You are stepping into a massive minefield with that comment. A 7 month fetus is totally viable as a human being, almost as much as a new born and this report states that the baby was post birth, not pre.  

But it's not 7 months old, as age begins from birth, not conception.  This isn't Korea.

 

[LeReynard]

1 hour ago, Fluke said:

Its a foetus body, rather than a babies body 

There's a big difference between a 7 month baby and a 7 month foetus 

Only an extreme fringe among pro-choice would say so, the ones obsessed by bodily autonomy to an unhealthy degree. By 2 months date expected due, a foetus is pain aware and viable - the exact same thing as a 2 months pre-term baby.

But from the reporting its impossible to tell wether its 7 months into gestation, or 7 months past the date expected due.

[Pinetree]

20 minutes ago, MrStretch said:

But it's not 7 months old, as age begins from birth, not conception.  This isn't Korea.

I don't understand the Korea reference and neither am I stepping into the Pro Choice minefield. 

[Fluke]

37 minutes ago, Pinetree said:

You are stepping into a massive minefield with that comment. A 7 month fetus is totally viable as a human being, almost as much as a new born and this report states that the baby was post birth, not pre.  

The report states that the foetus was prematurely  born as a baby and was 7 months old as a foetus .

   A foetus becomes a baby on the day that its born .

The baby in this story was one day old, not 7 months old

[MrStretch]

11 minutes ago, LeReynard said:

But from the reporting its impossible to tell whether its 7 months into gestation, or 7 months past the date expected due.

Really?

officials identified the body as a male infant, estimated to be between six and seven months in gestational age

9 minutes ago, Pinetree said:

I don't understand the Korea reference and neither am I stepping into the Pro Choice minefield. 

Until just recently, Korean age was calculated so that when you are born, you are one year old.

They've just recently announced that they were moving away from that practice to align their ages with the rest of the world.

There is nothing pro-choice or pro-life indicated in this story, with the exception of the premise that it might be an aborted fetus, though at a gestational stage of 7 months, that seems unusual.  Perhaps a miscarriage.

[LeReynard]

19 minutes ago, MrStretch said:

But it's not 7 months old, as age begins from birth, not conception.  This isn't Korea.

Actually, some Europeans once used something like the Confucian style age reckoning system. But not reckoning from the beginning of the year, as do East Asians traditionally, just the notion that since we are already alive when we reach our first birthday, the first year of life is age 0. And it does make more sense.

The Confucian system used in Korea is originally Chinese, and rooted in that very bureaucratic culture. By setting the birthday at New Year per traditional reckonings, people are more conveniently sorted into age cohorts. This is missing in other culture areas, and can only be understood as a bureaucratic imposition on the Chinese followed by diffusion to neighbouring nations.