Re: LOST: pregnant women dying

On Mar 7, 1:41=EF=BF=BDpm, "yng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <yng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mar 7, 11:46 am, ~consul <con...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:>
and =
thus JK inscribed ...
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> > > "tdciago" <tdci...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > > On Mar 6, 10:09?pm, "yng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <yng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >> Juliet said in the third trimester the immune system attacks the
> > >> fetus.
> > > In a previous episode, she put it this way:
> > > "The mother's body turns on the pregnancy, treats it as a foreign
> > > invader."
> > > So the question is: Why does the mother's body consider the fetus a
> > > foreign invader?
> > > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BDBecause it's from another time.
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> > It's crazy rare in real life, that makes me wonder why does the mom
also=
 die?
> > --
>
> That's the question. In real life, when a pregnant woman's immune
> system rejects an embryo, she miscarries but it would be very unlikely
> that her own life would be threatened. It's also unlikely that with an
> immune system problem, the embryo would reach fetus stage, but
> obviously something is different on the island.
> -yngver

Maybe we're looking at it assbackwards.

Instead of Craphole identifying with the mother, maybe it identifies
with the fetus, since it was CONCIEVED there, whereas the mother was
not (in most cases).

RWG (and Juliet doesn't know enough about the "mystical" crap to be
able to tell the difference)