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If they're in the womb, they're not, by definition, babies. Prior to exposure to language, I'm not even sure they're human. (of course, what constitutes "human" is a very open-ended question.)
A physical anthropologist/forensic anthropologist (Dr. David Glassman, Southwest Texas State University) where I went the school, put it this way ( paraphrasing ) "If you look at the electrical patterns in the brain of a fetus prior to 7 or 8 months old, they look nothing like the patterns of a newborn or of a adult. Prior to that, the patterns are mush. If an adult were to be injured and consequently had those same mushlike brain patterns, we'd pull the plug." I really should look this up, but for now, take it fr what it is-- my memory of a statement made in an anthropology class.
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