A Fetus Is Not A Child

[moriah]

99. I think you and I may have had this discussion before, but I've got a weird issue on intellectual...

... honesty when it comes to abortion.

Yes, a fetus is a human life. So is an embryo, from the moment of conception.

It's a child, when and only when, the mother feels it's a child, or when it is born.

Despite it being a human life and being a child if the mother considers it such, it does not, and should not, have the same rights as the woman carrying it. Or, rather, it's not able to be in a position to be forced to need to exert those rights until it's born, grown, and pregnant itself if it's female. Just as you don't have the right to demand I hook myself up to you for nine months to keep you alive, a fetus doesn't have the right to live in a woman's body if she doesn't want it there.

Now, I do believe in the (extremely unlikely, like to the point of probably never happening, ever) hypothetical situation of a pregnancy with a viable fetus being terminated for a reason other than a problem with the fetus itself or to save the woman's life (medical AND psychological reasons) that the form of termination of pregnancy should be labor induction or hysterotomy (the medical term for a c-section abortion), whichever the woman wishes to have. Both give an excellent chance for the fetus's survival and adoption by a couple, without making the woman have to carry the pregnancy once she wishes to end it. (I only say this because I know people who claim to be pro-choice but say that late-term elective abortion, even when performed in a manner that will preserve the fetus's life and allow for adoption, is wrong because of the complications of prematurity, and I firmly disagree with them.)