RE: For the logic impaired...
April 4, 2013 at 8:35 am
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 8:36 am by fr0d0.)
I think the science there is impersonal. You're not going to feel a person until it interacts with you maybe.
We (my wife) miscarried after a few weeks. I feel the pain of that some 13 years on. Our subsequent successful pregnancies were marred by it. We couldn't be as happy. A friend of ours naturally aborted a late pregnancy in hospital. The body was placed exposed on a bed next to her and she was left alone and unattended... so the trauma there was excessive... but I still think the person I grieve was just as much a person as what was recognisably human.
We (my wife) miscarried after a few weeks. I feel the pain of that some 13 years on. Our subsequent successful pregnancies were marred by it. We couldn't be as happy. A friend of ours naturally aborted a late pregnancy in hospital. The body was placed exposed on a bed next to her and she was left alone and unattended... so the trauma there was excessive... but I still think the person I grieve was just as much a person as what was recognisably human.

