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Q: If an alien face-hugger forces a symbiote down your throat, you're now forced to carry it to term (Original Post) tclambert Jun 2022 OP
what if god impregnates u behind your husband's back (adultery) nt msongs Jun 2022 #1
Husband: "You cheated on me? With God?" tclambert Jul 2022 #3
is a tertoma now illegal to remove? DBoon Jun 2022 #2
This is now the kind of cancer I'm wishing on Ted Cruz. tclambert Jul 2022 #4
he may already be one DBoon Jul 2022 #5

DBoon

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2. is a tertoma now illegal to remove?
Thu Jun 30, 2022, 08:35 PM
Jun 2022
A teratoma is a tumor made up of several different types of tissue, such as hair, muscle, teeth, or bone.[4] Teratomata typically form in the ovary, testicle, or coccyx.[4]
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Symptoms may be minimal if the tumor is small.[2] A testicular teratoma may present as a painless lump.[1] Complications may include ovarian torsion, testicular torsion, or hydrops fetalis.[1][2][3]

They are a type of germ cell tumor (a tumor that begins in the cells that give rise to sperm or eggs).[4][8] They are divided into two types: mature and immature.[4] Mature teratomas include dermoid cysts and are generally benign.[8] Immature teratomas may be cancerous.[4][9] Most ovarian teratomas are mature.[10] In adults, testicular teratomas are generally cancerous.[11] Definitive diagnosis is based on a tissue biopsy.[2]


- wikipedia

Sounds like a malformed non-viable embryo. Would removing it be illegal, in the same way that removing an ectopic pregnancy?
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