So if a fetus becomes a baby outside of the womb...?

Question

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I just asked this question, and got quite a few responses stating that it becomes a baby when it "breaths its first breath of air." When it "can sustain life outside the womb." And also got answers saying when it "was born."

So your trying to tell me that my unborn daughter (her due date is today), is not a baby yet? That my daughter who I have seen through an ultrasound sucking on her thumb, who I have felt sneezing, coughing, and kicking is not a baby yet?

Some of you people disgust me, to the point where I feel like throwing up...

If you don't want to get pregnant, DON'T HAVE SEX. If you have been raped by someone, and happen to get pregnant, thats a tragity, but at the very least just give it up for adoption. Bad things happen to good people, and they always will. My uncle didn't deserve to be shot on duty, but does that give me the right to go kill his murderer?

You deserved to be aborted yourselves...

You deserved to be aborted yourselves...

Answer 1

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! I was raped and had my rapist's child, but I will support ANY woman in such situation and will respect her decision to have an abortion. Just because I had strength to give birth to my son, doesn't mean that all women are capable of that.

I'm very happy that you feel that way about your daughter. Personally, I'm against abortion, but I respect other people's privacy and their right to CHOOSE.

Answer 2

Thank you for making the point about rape. You have no idea how many thumbs down I get for that one. People always say that pro-lifers should practice what they preach and I do but get thumbs downed for it ALL the time. My oldest son (now 13) was the product of a rape. He is a beautiful gift that came from a tragic experience. I was 21 when it happened and still in college, but I knew that it wasn't the child's fault how he got here. I didn't know for sure if I would adoption or not, but I knew that I would give the child life. My church helped pay for my medical bills (they didn't feel that they could say they were pro-life and not be active about it) which was a huge blessing and a wonderfully unexpected gift since I was a college student. I was allowed to keep teaching my youth SS class and the church allowed me to have a question answer session with the youth to explain what happened and why I was choosing to have the child. My family rejected me, but my church family did not. I decided to keep my son shortly after I felt him move, I knew that he was a part of me and that I could not live my life without him. I have never regretted my decision, he was the first step in creating the life that I always wanted to have (husband, children, family). He has every right to be here, regardless of how he came into being.

Answer 3

The law says that a "human being" is a person that has been born alive. That doesn't require any "belief." Currently, the cut-off for abortion is the first trimester -- 12-13 weeks. Nobody in their right mind is going to claim an embryo at 12-13 weeks can survive on its own, has a nervous system, or is a "human being." So what's the problem? And finally, here's the thing: If I'm carrying an embryo/fetus, then the decisions about carrying it or not are up to ME. If somebody else is, then they're up to THEM. Not you, not me. So if you don't want an abortion, don't have one. You don't get to decide that for anyone else but you. Peace.

Answer 4

Your daughter can sustain life outside the womb, if she is taken out right now at this second.

Not to have sex is ridiculous. It's the most natural thing in the world. And we are very natural. Do you know how anti-woman you are? You make a woman a second class citizen to what is techinically a parasite.
I am happy that you and your significant other are having a baby, but that gives you NO RIGHT to make someone else live by YOUR beliefs and YOUR standards.
Being raped is HORRIBLE. You cannot possibly conceive as to how absolutely traumitizing that it. You have lost all power as a human being when you are raped. You are dehumanized, forced into becoming an object for another's perverse gratification. To FORCE someone who is raped and becomes pregnant to carry to full term makes me absolutely naseous. I can feel the lump forming in my throat right now from wanting to throw up at the very idea at having to relive it day after day as my belly grows bigger. That is really sick.
No, your uncle did not deserve to be shot. I don't see how this connects with abortion.
Women can legally abort. If I can kill a man, who is violating my bodily integrity [rape] a living, breathing, fully developed cognizant human being out of self defense because I do not want him in me, violating me, I can also destroy a fetus, that I do not want in me, because it is my right to choose wether or not I want my bodily integrity violated and if I will do something about it.
It is not your choice. It is not anyone ele's choice. It is my choice.

Answer 5

Space Cowboy: Please forgive me for my answer this also appears on your other question for I feel I was one that you are upset with. I would have e-mailed you but you don't accept e-mails, and a public confession of my wrongdoings is better anyway.

If I offended anyone with my statement I apologize. I do not support abortion, I do believe that life begins at conception. Many people on here will ask questions with a skewed slant so as to trap people. I believe that when a woman is pregnant that it is a human child. So when I saw the question, when does a human become a baby, I saw a trapping question. So I went to the dictionary, got the definition of the two. I meant no disrespect. My wife is pregnant and it is such a glorious thing to witness the growth of our baby.

Answer 6

That is your moral viewpoint. If abortion is safe and legal, no one will force you (or your wife) to use it. Should other people make the choice not to abort? Absolutely, but there should not be a law forcing them into your morality.

There should be a change in society so that everyone is concerned with responsible sex i.e. using birth control, and that society does not accept abortion as birth control except as the very last choice. Sexually ready kids should be saying something to the effect of "I'm going to wait until marriage, but just in case, I have a rubber and I will use it" or "I'm a man, when I choose to have sex, I'll use a rubber." or "Hot guys all carry them, not that I want sex yet, but I won't date a guy with out one." These may be a bit over the top, but that is the attitude that must be ingrained in society.

Answer 7

I believe a baby is a baby from conception

But I also know that my beliefs aren't everyone beliefs and that if a woman, who has something so special robbed from her, and becomes pregnant: For as much as I am pro life I would hold her hand while she goes through with it. It's her body and her life and her GOD has to judge her, not me. We were sent here to love each other as Christ loves us. Not to judge

Answer 8

You just made a great point by saying that you have no right to kill the murderer of your uncle and regarding the unborn...then contradicted yourself by saying people deserve to be aborted.

Answer 9

If you don't think abortion is a good idea,... don't have one.

But why do you insist on pushing your beliefs on people who don't share them?
Why do you care what goes on in the hearts, minds, and vaginas of women you don't know and have nothing to do with?
Are you going to support the baby of a woman that doesn't want to have it? How about supporting a hundred babies, or a thousand???

It's not your business to make decisions for everybody else!

Get off your "high horse."

Answer 10

That much anger cannot be good for the baby. I seriously doubt that anything you've stated is true though but if it is why let others opinions bother you?