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[eppie]

As But biologically, a child is post birth, but your splitting hairs argument applies. Is it child if it could be born, but for some reason the birth is delayed by a few days or weeks (post term)? The word embryo comes to mind to define the in uterus potential non-human stage.

Splitting hairs? I am not sure.
If you choose to take this discussion to 'when can you call and embryo a child' it doesn't become anymore scientific.
Does it mean that whenever doctors were able to save the life of a very prematurely born child and set a 'new record' of minimal time in the womb and still alive we have to change the laws here?
Also in Africa most children that are born only a little bit prematurely will die during or just after birth while here in the west survival rates are a lot higher. Does that mean the date untill when you can have an abortion should be different in Africa?
Shouldn't the extreme pro-lifers better move to Africa and save children there?


I think we all agree that often abortion is the best thing to do.
We all agree that abortion should not be done because the mother wants to continue partying.
I think that both in countries where abortion is legal and in countries where it is illegal personal drama's happen.
I as pro-choicer want to be sure that abortions because of gender will not happen (at least not in my country) and I also realise that this might be difficult to check. But just banning abortion will not be the right thing to do.
But most of all I think that it is the mother and fathers business. No government should tell a mother what to do with her body. And the most important thing to realize for both sides in this discussion is that having an abortion is a terrible thing for the mother and a choice that is not taken lightly. The exceptions on this should not be why we shape our law a certain way.