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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
fetus != baby
would imagine the though process is that while the fetus is inside the mother , the mother makes the choice because the fetus is part of her.. once the fetus is born , it is now its own individual.
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That thought always worked for me until I started meeting children that my wife works with that were born VERY premature, are now 6 years old, and realize that they could have been legally aborted at the point when they were actually delivered prematurely, and thereby been deprived of their chance at life. Just because they could have been called a "fetus", I realized, did not make them any less human beings with rights. I think that doesn't apply in the first trimester, but after that, I think you're killing a kid.
So I find it interesting that in a City that is all for legal late term abortion, they are going to get into this issue.
In fact, most curcumsicion is done within the first week, so I guess if the child is delivered late, and they do the operation in the womb, then THAT would be ok, since it doesn't have rights.
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