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- verb Common misspelling of
anesthetize .
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If a woman wishes an abortion she should be willing to have the procedure prior to quickening, the period of gestation where the movement of the fetus becomes noticeable, as that point is when the brain is actually functioning enutero and the humane thing to do would be to anesthesize the living being that is forcibly removed from their enviroment.
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