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Originally posted by Danny
As I have already said, Abortion is not possible that late. Abortion is only possible during the early stages of pregnancy. I'm not sure the exact point where it becomes impossible, but once past that point, if the baby is lost, then it is known as a Stillbirth.
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We're talking about deliberately induced abortion, right? As far as I was aware, it's called abortion right up until about 7 or 8 months, after that it's called infanticide (inducing delivery to kill it). There's a type of commonly performed abortion that takes place as late as four or five months into pregnancy. The doctor induces delivery before puncturing the skull. A tube is then inserted into the head and the brains are sucked out before the dead baby is fully removed from the womb.
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Originally posted by Danny
Besides, one has to draw the line somewhere. The baby develops from a single fertilised egg to a baby over a period of nine months. A single fertilised egg is (I am 100% sure of this) not a conscious being. A baby is. There is no definite point that one can point to and say "There! It's a baby now!" We just don't have the technology to find out when it becomes conscious, and so we must put it down to how we define a "child". The way I define it, the foetus is NOT a child, and therefore you are not killing a person, you are stopping a person from coming into existence. If you try and see it from this point of view now, you will see why objecting to Abortion is just silly (from this point of view). In fact, I've already explained it...
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Define foetus. Is a foetus simply the state of the offspring in the time up until birth? You've already decided for yourself that a foetus is not a child, and that aborting a foetus
is acceptable. Do you consider a baby born four months premature to be worthy of the title "child" or is it still a foetus, even though outside of the womb? Your dependence on strict definitions doesn't seem to work.