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Originally Posted by xxEllexx
no, it's not your life i'm talking about - because if you'd been aborted as an embryo you wouldn't have had a life. so how is it you i am referring to? you might know a lot more about adoption, fair enough.. but that doesn't mean that you're opinions on abortion are any more right or wrong than anyone else's.
as for the man with one arm, yes i totally agree - and i've accepted that you have more first hand experience with adoption - but i would just like to say again that this isn't about adoption!!
edit: no, i didn't ask that.. as i've already said.
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Yes, the abortion topic is integrally connected to the adoption topic, as adoption is the other option (the option that allows for life) so embryos who do not get aborted would instead later get adopted. And as Josh and I have said before, as adopted children, we definitely prefer being ALIVE to being dead, despite the stigma and emotional troubles that go along with being adopted.
Also, as a woman who is going through an unplanned/unwanted pregnancy, I know that abortions are allowed long after the baby is alive. Even from before the tenth week of pregnancy (abortions are allowed until the 24th week, which is in the second trimester) I felt the emotional bond between myself and the baby. It is impossible to describe. This is something that is not imagined, and millions of women feel the same way. How can a mother feel so innately connected to this baby if it is nothing but a clump of cells? Also, I started feeling my baby move as of around 15 weeks (still well before abortion becomes illegal)
Also, whichever poster said that once the embryo becomes a fetus, abortion is no longer allowed, must have been misinformed. I just checked a fetal development website and it states that an unborn baby becomes a fetus as of ten weeks of pregnancy (long before abortion is not allowed). I also included a link of the fetal development stage at 20 weeks of pregnancy (when a woman would still have no legal trouble getting an abortion) At this stage a fetus can hear and recognize his mother's voice (obviously a live, aware little person in there by now)
"The 1967 Abortion Act makes abortion legal if the pregnancy is less than 24 weeks and two doctors agree that the abortion can be carried out. After 24 weeks an abortion can only take place if the woman's life is in danger or if there is a high risk that the baby would be seriously handicapped."
Here are my sources if you'd like to check.
Week 10 Embryo is now a Fetus - Month 3 Fetal development information your baby is inside you over weeks months trimesters
Abortion information and advice (England)
How far into pregnancy can you obtain an abortion? - Yahoo! Answers (U.S. and Canada)
Abortion Procedures : American Pregnancy Association (U.S. abortion procedures)
http://www.baby2see.com/development/week20.html (fetus at twenty weeks of pregnancy)