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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

It is awful.Anyone who’s been to even the 12 week scans knows that your baby’s not just a collection of cells by then and at the 21 week scan they look like a fully formed little person.
It should be limited to before 12 imo.

Before 12 weeks isn't enough time imo and 12 weeks gives the person enough time to first of all find out they're pregnant and secondly a little time to process that and give their decision the thought time it deserves. 12 weeks is when an embryo becomes a fetus so that's probably why there's that cut off point being proposed. Also, I've had 12 week scans and it really doesn't look like a baby at that stage, it looks like a bean