(August 21, 2013 at 4:23 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: @FNM, have a look at the chart I posted. The heart is fully formed before 12 weeks, I thought that was your threshold, the heart?
The end of the first trimester is when the heartbeat can be detected(or so I was told), which is what I was basing it on. I fully admit it's an arbitrary line based on emotion, and I am equally open to being convinced there is a better point to draw it.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
