Fetus is a word to dehumanize someone before you kill it.
Southerners also had a word for the people they victimized, a word to dehumanize them.
I can't even type the word here because the forum will censor it out.
Unlike fuck and shit which is allowed.
No fetus is the correct medical term for a gestating human which is not yet fully formed or capable of living outside the womb. There’s also zygote but that’s for a fertilized egg/cell cluster with no heartbeat.
A fetus is a potential life, and a fragile one at that. 1/3 of all pregnancies end in miscarriage so there is no guarantee that the fetus will become a baby. Most miscarriages take place in the first trimester. This is why people don’t generally announce a pregnancy until the second trimester, until the most vulnerable period has passed.
A baby can LIVE at 20 weeks. Yet you support unrestricted abortions to include right up to minutes before the baby is born. And don't deny it the Democrats in Congress just recently opposed a law that would ban abortion after 20 weeks except for medical necessity.
The test for genetic abnormalities is not done prior to 20 weeks gestation. It takes 4 weeks to get results. That’s week 24. Late term abortions aren’t done because a woman changes her mind. They’re done for the most heartbreaking of reasons. And they’re decisions no woman wants to ever have to make. This mothers to be wanted a baby. They took a test at 20 weeks, and said prayers every night for 4 weeks that their baby was fine, and the answer was no. You are asked to think about what your decision will be based on the result. You’ll be 24 weeks pregnant at that point. It’s assumed what you’ll do but these aren’t late regret pregnancies.
You are making assumptions that women are killing babies when in fact many of these pregnancies must be terminated for medical reasons. In some cases when the mothers have proceeded with the pregnancies, the child has died shortly after birth from the conditions diagnosed from the testing. This was their choice. Other families chose to stop now rather than go through three more months of pregnancy so the baby can die in their arms.
In other cases it’s health of the mother which is at risk. In some cases women have died and been kept alive by machines to continue gestation, again by their own choice beforehand, but all too often, the fetus doesn’t survive, either.
Again these are not your decisions, they’re not your children. They’re not your families. They’re not your bodies. This is healthcare. And it’s none of your fucking business.