A common argument for abortion is "A fetus is not a baby"....so when you know someone who is prego, and has a miscarriage in the first two or three months do you say "they lost the baby" or "they no longer have the group of cells in there that might be a baby" or is only a baby when you don't want to kill it?
2007-05-31 07:13:30 · 17 answers · asked by yetti 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Common terminology is not necessarily accurate. Death is associated with many euphemisms.
The abortion debate is not really about whether a life is being ended, but about whether that life qualifies as human with the same rights as those who are born. People will have different viewpoints based on their beliefs as to when that life deserves equal protection to achieve its potential.
2007-05-31 07:24:19 · answer #1 · answered by hwinnum 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I say that person has had a miscarriage. Because that is what happened to her, the embryo or fetus has been lost. 1 in 3 pregnancies end in miscarriages so this is common and it happens mostly in the first trimester. So I don't consider it a child, I won't use the word baby.
2007-05-31 14:26:12 · answer #2 · answered by cynical 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
this is a question of rights. and it's one you can't fence sit on. Either you're for the woman's rights 100% of the time, no exceptions or you're for the fetuses rights, 100% of the time, no exceptions. If there is to be any judgment then our maker will judge more harshly than another human ever could and God even tells us not to judge lest we be judged by the same measure. The BS about "no abortion but yes in the case of rape or incest" is saying that this fetus is more valuable than that one and that makes you a hypocrite, if you stand up for the fetuses rights than you must stand up for all fetuses equally, all the time.
All this being taken into account, I feel that the pregnant woman should choose her own path.
2007-05-31 14:24:55 · answer #3 · answered by Alan S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
someone already asked this-
I have a friend (pro-choice) who miscarried. she said she lost her fetus.
(due to time and religious beliefs said fetus is now a baby. it would have been born by now and is in heaven so it is still spoken about. but when you ask her about her miscarriage she will say she lost a fetus, not a baby. it wasn't alive when it exited her body)
2007-05-31 14:52:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is it murder or manslaughter when the state makes abortion illegal and girls / women must then turn to the butchers of the past for an abortion and die of complications caused by the coat hanger?
Abortion should NOT be used as a form of birth control, however – no woman / girl should have to die because YOU (or anyone) think abortion is immoral. We will have to answer to our God one day. Sorry to inform you, but nobody on this earth is a God.
2007-05-31 14:24:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I prefer to think of myself as 'pro-death,' since I also support capital punishment, but...
I think I'd say "suffered a miscarriage." It's accurate.
2007-05-31 14:19:49 · answer #6 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your last statement is correct. It is only a baby when they want it. It is a fetus when they feel like aborting it.
2007-05-31 14:16:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because they CHOSE for it to be a baby.
Why do you even have an opinion on the subject?
Only women can decide the issue.
2007-05-31 14:17:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Symantics.
2007-05-31 14:16:14 · answer #9 · answered by tobcol 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's only a "group of cells" when they made a bad decision, and decide to get it sucked out of them.
2007-05-31 14:21:51 · answer #10 · answered by Christine O 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋