till it can live on it's own outside of the body it is not a human being.
you can search all the medical dictionaries in the world and you will not find that to be part of the definition of human being.....sorry......
It has not taken a breath on it's own, it is just so much cells till it actually lives outside the womb.
A woman's body essentially treats a fetus like a tumor, especially in the first few months. The heart cells are immature and it does not even begin to move till after the third month. Until the middle of the seventh month even with special neonatal equipment there is a high probability it will not survive till at least the eighth month.
What kind of a life is it if the fetus cannot eat, breath or even regulate it's own heartbeat or body temperature without machines? The fetus is not living, the machines are keeping it alive artificially.
No women should be forced to carry life any more than she should be forced to undertake any medical treatment or procedure if she does not want to. It is her body, first and foremost.
We choose what to believe and what to do. We are even stupid enough to use dangerous drugs and to drink too much sometimes. We choose to mark and cut our bodies for our amusement. We choose what to where. We choose what to do. Would you have a woman choose suicide because she could not get a legal abortion? Why are you denying her the right to her body when it comes to childbirth? That is a nine month commitment, where she is not free to control her own body? Some women don't want to suffer with labor, even though we cut into her body to forcibly remove the baby in some cases. Even an episiotomy can be a painful recovery............and men are scared to get their prostrate checked and whine like children even with a cold.
A woman has a right to free choice of her body, even in jail that right is not taken away. Rape and abuse are punishable against those in the system and those that run it.
At any time during the pregnancy if the mother's life is at risk the pregnancy can be terminated. I have three wonderful children and we lost one in the first few months but I can't believe that a woman should be told you much carry and give birth over a period of nine month without having a choice. There are far too many horrors in the world to bring forth an unwanted child. There are far too many risks with pregnancy and childbirth, even in this day and age, for a woman to not be totally committed to going thought it.
Go save those already living before you start to consume yourself with those not yet living on their own.
.............and if your are terminating a fetus, how you do so as long as it does not do permanent harm to the women or her ability to carry a child later on should not really matter, nor what is done with the tissue afterwards. If something good can come out of a bad situation and current lives can be saved, why not let medical labs use the tissue. Why not let them use umbilical cords, placenta and even menses if it can be of benefit. It should not be about not saving any life, but just not forcing a woman to commit to a life she is not ready for.
Life should be about quality not quantity. Too many live in less than ideal conditions. Take better care of those lives first.
When we live in a world of plenty with not crime, high education, lots of job opportunities, excellent housing and the world is not at risk of imploding or exploding by our own hand, then you can begin to worry about the lives not yet born. Even then it will still be up to the women what happens to her body.