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In reply to the discussion: A fetus is NOT a BABY or a CHILD. Got that? Eleven things you will NEVER hear: [View all]vkkv
(3,384 posts)56. DH. You think that a fetus is a baby - you are the one who should embarrassed.
If an unborn can survive on it's own without being connected to it's mother than that's too late to be aborted and few are except as a health danger to the mother.
And such development indicates that that is not a fetus now is it? Fetuses are aborted, not babies who can survive without being connected it's mother -except as a health danger to the mother.
And yes, people have been known to eat fertilized eggs, regularly. Look it up.
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A fetus is NOT a BABY or a CHILD. Got that? Eleven things you will NEVER hear: [View all]
vkkv
Jun 2015
OP
What logic! Not. It's still murder. You or I could get run over tomorrow. Doesn't
Joe Chi Minh
Jun 2015
#7
God's mercy toward us? Agonizing death on the cross? I can't say, I wasn't there, and
vkkv
Jun 2015
#14
Joe wrote: "the mother is the most innocent party concerned, and because of the enduring feeling of
vkkv
Jun 2015
#17
They also confuse objective with subjective. Guilt is subjective, based on one person's opinion.
uppityperson
Jun 2015
#42
I'd be really PO'd if I ordered BBQ chicken at a BBQ place and they brought me a fertilized EGG.
vkkv
Jun 2015
#16
I think you've put your finger on it. The dispute is when a developing life form
hedgehog
Jun 2015
#19
The fact that it is so subjective (a lot of which is based on religious/personal belief)
Proud Liberal Dem
Jun 2015
#21
At what gestational age will a fetus become billable by insurance companies?
greymattermom
Jun 2015
#25
Then let's throw logic and accuracy out of the window and call a fertilized chicken egg
vkkv
Jun 2015
#31
There is a difference between being pro-choice, keeping abortions legal, hygienic, safe, and
uppityperson
Jun 2015
#36
A fetus is not a baby until it is a baby? Huh. How do you feel about abortions?
uppityperson
Jun 2015
#41
Diamonhead, if I say "I think you are crazy", then am I Pro-Choice or Anti-Choice?
vkkv
Jun 2015
#45
No, wrong again. There is no "baby in the womb" -it is a fetus. You are talking in abstractions.
vkkv
Jun 2015
#50