abortion: kills FEOTUS, not children. the anti-abort crowd knows that right?

Question

there is a big gap between a feotus and a child.....

and being fair: it is the womans choice. what right do religious officials have to govern what women do with their bodies?

none whatsoever.

the difference:

feotus: undeveloped pile of nutrients, work in progress

children: living, breathing, feeding etc etc ALL BY ITSELF.

for the record: a child is a child when it is BORN in my book.

Answer 1

its fetus, and you are right. It IS my right to do whatever to my body whatever I see fit. I am pro-choice, and in scientific realms, a fetus is nothing more than a parasite. It feeds off the hosts ( mother's) body, and that makes it a parasite. In the scientific realms, a fetus is like headlice,or scabies. They have heartbeats too.

Answer 2

*sigh*

Abortion is a legal question. The science is clear - the "feotus" is alive and it's human. There is no "big gap". The question is what rights, if any, a fetus has and when it has them. The legal answer is, at best, murky. In California, for instance, abortion is legal, but if a fetus is killed during the commission of a crime, then the killer is guilty of murder. In that case, the answer apparently is "a fetus is human when we want it to be human". While this is perfectly valid, it does seem a little arbitrary.

"Religious officials" have no right to dictate what a woman may and may not do with her body. It is, however, surely within the province of the government to decide what constitutes murder and what does not. In the course of doing that, citizens have the right to make their opinions known, regardless of their reason for doing so.

So I guess my question to you would be why are you so adamant about not allowing people to express opinions?

Answer 3

Difficult, on so many levels. Even legal ones. 3 points :
1- As medical science rapidly peels back the age that pre-term births are viable, will you still feel the same when a 12 week miscarried embryo is brought to full term and lives ?
2- As women have successfully sued for maintenance of their child, even if the father did not want it, is it fair that it is entirely "the womens choice" ?
3- My first girlfriend was a nurse at a womens hospital. She told me of some of what she experienced on a daily basis. Two that come to mind were a women who repeatedly had abortions so that she did not have to go on the pill, which she saw as unnatural and bad for her health (!); and the day a fetus was aborted, and started breathing on its own. By the hospital rules for abortions, they had to wrap it in a blanket, and leave it on a tray till it died. It started to cry...
Difficult, on so many levels.

Mostly I think that humanity is losing it's "humanity" because we have the option of taking an easier road. Not necessarily easy, mind, but easier. Abortions are being performed when an amniocentesis shows birth defects like spina bifida, even down syndrome, or, in some cultures, a female. Or just because it's inconvenient. Makes for a more selfish, self centred world.

Answer 4

Even if the religious folks on here got their way and had abortion made illegal, women would still find ways of terminating pregnancies that they couldn't support.

They may not like it, but it's essential to save the lives of women.

Answer 5

How do you make this distinction? You have decided that a fetus is not a child? Your credentials for making this determination are...?

The supreme court said that if they could be sure it was a child then it would be murder. But since no one could prove it either way, they opted to vote for the woman's right to privacy. That is the right that allows abortion.

Since the supreme court, in their decision, said they could not determine if an unborn baby was a human being or not, how is it you have been able to determine it?

If a woman gets pregant, and that pregnancy is allowed to go to term...a human being is brought into this world. Therefore, using reason alone...one would think that it is a human being from conception. This whole thing about being a lump of cells or tissue is such a crock! All of us started out the same way. Each fertilized egg...at conception, has it's own unique DNA. The very fingerprint of humanity. Even science recongnizes this as an "individual."

The pro-abortionists have worked so very hard at pushing their views. They talk about being pro-woman, every child a wanted child, it's my body etc. If every child is a wanted child why had child abuse and neglect gone up in the last 30+ years of legalized abortion? Why are there any children given up for adoption?

A woman's right is to choose NOT to have sex with a man she doesn't want children with. The baby is not an accident of sex...when sex works the way it should, babies are conceived.

I had two abortions years ago and I suffer from the emotional scars to this day. At the time of my abortions, I was pro-choice...I bought the pack of lies force fed to me by the media and the feminist movement. It's my body...my choice! So, with that battle cry I killed my babies! Wow...what a choice huh? I wonder to this day, who they would have been and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, had I allowed them to live they would have been two people I loved. The very nature of "mother" is to love and nurture her offspring...not kill them in her womb.

Answer 6

Actually the differences between foetus and child aren't that pronounced. There are much bigger differences between child/foetus and embryo, which a foetus remains until around 12-14 weeks pregnant. Not that I'm a staunch pro-lifer, I've had a termination myself, though not so much of my own decision.

Answer 7

i'm not going to jump into a huge battle with anyone on this issue; however, in the interest of accuracy, the difference between a 'fetus' and a 'child' is a function of time and nutrition

Answer 8

the real question people should be asking is when does life matter,not when does it begin. does life matter at all?is there a right or wrong concerning these issues?sometimes women have abortions.they may regret it,they may not.the baby may have gone on to live a happy life- it may not.where is the right or wrong in this?

Answer 9

Fetus- latin for offspring. Abortion- another english word for murder. I can see how people can desensitize themselves into thinking that this is a strictly religious objection- but what about morally, it's been proven that these "fetus'" can live at a very very premature age, and yet we condone their murders, every child should have a chance to live, they shouldn't have to pay the price for their mom's poor desicions. I'm sorry, This subject just does not sit well with me, I have a neice who is adopted, and everytime I think of this topic I think that I might not have a neice but that some woman gave up that right and allowed her to be born. Why can't more women do this? There are hundred's of thousands of couples out there who would be willing to spring for the costs in order to have a baby when they can't have one on their own.

Answer 10

That's just semantics. There is no difference. A foetus is just a very young baby. Up to 14 weeks it is called an embryo. From 14 to 40 weeks it is called a foetus. From 40-82 weeks it is called a baby. From 82-135 weeks it is called a toddler. From 135-976 weeks it is called a child.

I agree that I should be able to do what I like with my body. If I choose to sharpen my fingernails to a point in order to better gouge out your eyes, it is surely my right to choose to do so?

The fact is a woman has the right to do what she will with her body, but she DOES NOT have the right to kill someone else simply because they happen to be temporarily sharing that body with her.

Anyone with any moral responsibility - be it religious, government or medical - has the right to govern people not to kill others simply to cover up for their own stupidity.

Answer 11

Women have every right to decide what to do with their own bodies.

The problem is: when does the foetus become an individual human being enough to allow it to have its own rights.

I do not know -- these things are decided by society as a whole arguing through them.

The ethical problem is not as easy as extremists on both sides try to make out.
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