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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
I'm sorry but this is only true at the early development stage... beyond 12 weeks gestation you're simply incorrect. Abortions are legally carried out until 20+ weeks.
By implication, in terms of morality, aborting at say 16 weeks is logically no different to drowning a baby at birth. It is no more or less human, and a newborn has no more or less "life experience". If you're defining sentience as consciousness, then a 16 week old fetus is sentient. If you're defining sentience as having a concept or fear of mortality, then you might as well advocate the postpartum abortion of toddlers, because they have neither.
Incidentally... bucket-drowning was a fairly common method of "birth control", up until a hundred or so years ago...
Anyway, all I'm saying is, you are perfectly entitled to define your own moral stance on the issue of abortion... but, I find it really grating when people use the (completely inaccurate) "bundle of cells" justification. It's true for a couple of weeks, but throughout the majority of a pregnancy, it's just a completely false statement.
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Abortions after 12 weeks must be recommended by a doctor. I'm aware that there is some manipulation of that law, and I would like to see that ended. Only for
serious medical complications should abortions be carried out after 12 weeks. But I still agree with abortion up to that point if that's the choice of the woman because I believe every child should be a wanted child.