Obvious crevices of digression are discernible in the ongoing discourses on conception, women and
reproductive rights, and abortion. Against this backdrop, this paper sets out to explore existing
thoughts on the bio-physiological processes of conception and pregnancy,
epigenetics, and the impact of trauma on the
continuum of human psychological development with a view to accentuating
the critical intersection of the emerging discourses. By dissecting the
conflated and intricate leanings on the opposite sides of the treatise, the
paper goes beyond the current paradigm that merely proffers a timeframe at which it might be
appropriate to legitimize termination of pregnancy (in other words, abort a
baby without attracting punitive attention of the state) and advance more creative
theorizing, which raises the question of power balance and discipline. Ours is
a discussion paper, covering a methodical synopsis of discourses, definitions, aims, philosophical leanings and content
analysis ofmajor postulations, and
highlights of their operational intricacies. The paperhypothesized that a single-cell
blastocyst is a developing human being and engaging discourses on power
and discipline, it further explored the influences of epigenetics onlifespan development, and how this impinges on
women’sright over their
reproductive bodies. The paper adopts the Traditional Ecological
Knowledge (TEK), and black feminist
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