(April 6, 2013 at 7:26 am)Mr_Dew7 Wrote: 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.
Why waste time posting about stuff I never disputed and ignoring the criticism I attempted to convey?
Quote: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.
"Human" and "completely unaware of its own existance" are not mutually exclusive, not that I think that matters here. I do not think how developed or undeveloped a foetus is should affect the time limit on abortion as long as aborting a foetus of that age is relatively safe for the pregnant person. I view the point as that the mother has the right to her own body, and if she does not want to carry the foetus then it should be removed. Before the point of viability, this results in the death of the foetus; after it, it may be more like a premature birth, although given the resources needed to attempt to sustain babies born at 25 weeks I do not think abortion at that point is generally a good thing.
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