What is your alternative to abortion?

[Mr_Dew7]

You dispute the FACT that an unborn baby is a human? That a fetus is a human? And what is this "illogical appeal to emotion"? Appealing to the base of the human experience is illogical?

I do not deny that a foetus is made of human cells. However, calling a foetus an unborn baby is like calling a child an underdeveloped adult. Ja, it may work, but it makes no sense to use the term. Saying abortion is killing an unborn baby is like saying murdering me is killing a 42-year-old college professor (which I may or many not grow up to become, similar to how a foetus may or may not become a baby) who just isn't quite there yet.

Through using language which includes the word "baby" unnecessarily, you are trying to elicit an emotional response from others, who may oppose the killing of babies and/or be emotionally attatched to babies but are less likely to oppose the abortion of foetuses and/or be emotionally attatched to foetuses. You are doing this because you think the emotional response strengthens your argument -- only evil heartless people could support the murder of all teh innocent little babbies!!

Hint: It doesn't, or at least shouldn't, work. Arguments here should not be based on emotions. Find other ways to support your point.

Now, if you'd kindly give a response or at least acknowledgement of the major difference between a baby and a foetus, that'd be nice. That was after all the point of my previous post.

Fetus: an unborn or unhatched vertebrate especially after attaining the basic structural plan of its kind; specifically : a developing human from usually two months after conception to birth

At 2 months, 8 weeks, of pregnancy, the baby is moving along swiftly in its development. It has it's own blood type. It's heart has by then divided into its left and right chambers and beats at approximately 150 bpm. The baby is at this point beginning to practice moving. So a fetus is defined above as a developing human from usually two months after conception to birth. That means that most of it's development occurs after the period in which it classifies as a fetus.

Fetus = Unborn Baby.

Emotional arguments aside, this is fact and nothing but fact. Abortions are allowed up to 14 weeks and in some places up to 24 weeks! That is well into the development of the child!

So you see that a fetus is a human being, not something completely unaware of its own existence. The face begins to develop in the first month! Well before the time limit on abortion expires.