and when your wife was pregnant, did she consider it to be a foetus or a baby, and what did you think ?
It is too long ago for me to remember and we were both young and immature anyway. Whatever emotional response anyone has does not change the biological facts. We must take decisions on facts and not on emotions.
relevance is, if you've been pregnant you have a better idea of what your talking about than if you haven't.
Why? You only have a better idea of what it is like to be pregnant, but that is not what we are talking about. We are talking about when "life" exists.
i'll sum up my case..
The NHS abortion service is heading for a crisis because increasing numbers of doctors refuse to carry out terminations.There has been a big rise in young medics with 'conscientious objections' to abortion.
I will take your word on this, although I have seen no such evidence myself. I trust as they get older they might become wiser.
Science tells us that human life begins at the time of conception.
I cannot see any justification for such a statement. In fact I think that "science" actually says rather the opposite. The key word is "human". An fertilised egg is not a "human".
From the moment fertilization takes place, the child's genetic makeup is already complete. Its gender has already been determined, along with its height and hair, eye and skin color. The only thing the embryo needs to become a fully-functioning being is the time to grow and develop.
And your point is? No doubt you could extract DNA from an egg and a sperm and calculate what the resultant human would be, but that does not make a human exist. The point is that the fertilised egg/embryo has not yet developed but merely has the potential to do so.
why is there a 24wk limit on abortions in the uk, if it is not a baby until its breathes its first breathe ?
I am no expert but surely that is the very earliest time when it is theoretically possible for a live birth to occur.
there are many risks from having a abortion. higher risk of suicide, cancer, increased risk to later pregnancies, link between abortion and mental illness in women with no previous history of psychological problems.
Which is why it should be an act of last resort and why any women having to face it deserves as much support and understanding as possible, and not an additional layer of guilt.
93% of abortions are for social reasons, not medical reasons.
I too am not comfortable with any abortion carried out as an alternative to contraception.
that's my views on this and none of my views have got anything to do with religion, but are to preserve life.
I have no argument at all about wishing to preserve life. My argument is about when life really starts and about making already stressed women feel guilty.
