Sae:
What I'm saying is that the time issue for me, is down to the fact that at some point a foetus develops the ability to feel, and more specifically - to feel pain. And to be clear, I actually specifically said almost 9 months, not just 9 months, because what I was trying to clarify was that if a baby were to be aborted very shortly before birth - that's a whole lot worse than if conception has just happened and the foetus is basically just a small cluster of cells. So what I think to myself is "Where should I draw the line?", and I think "Well, why I feel aborting a foetus almost ready to be born is wrong, is mostly down to the fact that it is just as much of a baby as if it was born - which means it's capable of feeling, and feeling pain, capable of suffering."
That's what makes it a baby rather than just a foetus, in my mind. It would be horrific to make a baby suffer. So it is for that reason that I draw the line at: Whenever the baby is developed enough to feel pain. I'm not just thinking about the mother, because there's a point at when a foetus should be considered a proper baby, and a human being, (it doesn't magically become human the moment it's born) - and I draw that line at the point when it can feel pain and can suffer.
EvF
What I'm saying is that the time issue for me, is down to the fact that at some point a foetus develops the ability to feel, and more specifically - to feel pain. And to be clear, I actually specifically said almost 9 months, not just 9 months, because what I was trying to clarify was that if a baby were to be aborted very shortly before birth - that's a whole lot worse than if conception has just happened and the foetus is basically just a small cluster of cells. So what I think to myself is "Where should I draw the line?", and I think "Well, why I feel aborting a foetus almost ready to be born is wrong, is mostly down to the fact that it is just as much of a baby as if it was born - which means it's capable of feeling, and feeling pain, capable of suffering."
That's what makes it a baby rather than just a foetus, in my mind. It would be horrific to make a baby suffer. So it is for that reason that I draw the line at: Whenever the baby is developed enough to feel pain. I'm not just thinking about the mother, because there's a point at when a foetus should be considered a proper baby, and a human being, (it doesn't magically become human the moment it's born) - and I draw that line at the point when it can feel pain and can suffer.
EvF
