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Originally Posted by Bex
i watched the news last night and i saw the footage of the scans. it was amazing to see. it really is going to fuel the abortion debate. if a foetus is that responsive at 12weeks when it is still legal to abort it, it is going to cause an up roar with the pro-lifers  |
It ought to cause an uproar with everybody, IMHO. I think a lot of people (by no means all, but a lot) have only been able to rationalise abortion in their own heads by viewing it as a 'clinical procedure' carried out on a 'thing' called a foetus, in which doctors excise the 'products of a pregnancy' from the womb.
When I look at those scans, it shows me what I have always believed to be the case. Even at that early stage, there is a human child. Totally dependent on its mother, but no less alive for that.