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Originally Posted by Bex
after watching one of the morning programmes this morning.... think it was BBC1 but hey it was 7am i wasn't awake...... they were discussing some of the issues around the scan photos and whether a change in the when an abortion can happen will change.....
the gov are suggestion a change from 24weeks.. to 22weeks...
i don't see the point in changing it if it is only going to be a case of 2weeks... but what does everyone else think?
(apologise for the waffle still half a sleep)
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I think the government on jumping on an emotive bandwagon without any valid scientific evidence. All those photographs show is that the developing child exhibits behaviour that has a visual parallel to the behaviour of a born child. There is no evidence whatsoever as to the underlying cause for that motion. I can take a corpse and rig it up to electrical signals to get it to move around, it doesn`t mean that the corpse is suddenly self aware.
Just because an unborn child might make a facial expression that approximates smiling doesn`t it doesn`t follow that it is an emotional response indicative of some form of awareness.