Catholic_Lady Wrote:Catholic_Lady Wrote:Ugh. It's tempting not to use the story of my son who died at 23 weeks gestation when I see comments like these....
I feel like I would be exploiting him and his situation if I did, but at the same time I feel like it's important testimony of how very precious and very human a little unborn baby is. I could not see him the day that I delivered him because I was careful to protect my heart that day. But my husband did see him and hold him and took pictures of him before we sent him off to be cremated. He took some pictures of him and I finally saw those pictures about a month later when I was ready. He had his dad's nose. We named him Joseph and I'm telling you that he is/was very much a person.
I'm very sorry for your loss.
23 weeks is much, much later than when the vast majority of abortions are performed. At six weeks, the fetus looks more like a tadpole than a human embryo. At eight weeks it still has a tail. If I wanted to be tricky, I could show photos of the embryo's of other animals and say 'gotcha' if you took my word that they were human based on appearance.
You've made a decent appeal to not have late term abortions (I would certainly hope they would only be performed if medically necessary); but you would not be able to make the same claims about a fetus in an earlier stage of development.
And nothing wrong with personalizing the issue when it's personal. Again, I'm sorry for your loss. No one should have to go through that.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
