Late Term Abortion

Regardless of who wins this debate, calling me stupid will not help your side. If a pregnancy is unwanted, maybe the mother should have thought about that before she had sex. And please do not say, "what about girls that are raped?". I have compassion for people that have been thorough extreme trauma and are left with a child, but rape is 0.01% of all rapes reported. That means out of 1000 abortions, 1 will be because of rape. The only way to produce a baby is sexual intercourse, so if you are big enough of an adult to consent to sex, I think you should be responsible for what your actions create. If the people are in poverty, maybe they should focus more on working and less on having sex, but giving them a way out will not solve the problem. If they know they will always be able to be bailed out of their situation, they will never learn. And comparing sperm to a fetus "as an example to how far people will go in life to get rights for cells" is preposterous. No one in the world is trying to legislate sperm. No one in the world is trying to legislate a female egg, because without each other, a sperm and an egg are NOT a fetus. You can say it's not a baby and it doesn't matter all you want, but science says you are wrong. You haven't addressed any of my facts about heartbeats or brain waves because you simply don't care. Instead, you are willing to sit here and ask me if I'm stupid, yet you haven't responded to any of the reliable evidence I have given. I am not trying to have "an unborn fetus control an adult's life", I am trying to save the fetuses life. It is scientifically a baby, what don't you understand about that? I have given you facts, reason, and logic...you have given me your opinion. I am quite sure I NEVER once compared a fetus to an adult. They are very different in appearance, personality, developmental stage, and so forth, but their lives are just as equally important. A child is not the equivalent to an adult, but does that mean the mother should choose to end that child's life? Again, you say she has months and months to think about this decision all the way up until the 9th month. Even the most ardent pro-choice individuals have never said anything as disgusting as that. Life begins at the moment of conception. This is the definition given in any respectable medical textbook. To declare a beginning of life at any point after the fusing of a wife"s egg and a husband"s contribution is irrational and an exercise in sophistical chicanery. Only machines such as clocks and cars come into existence part by part. Living beings come into existence all at once and gradually unfold their world of innate potential. A living human person begins to exist at the moment of conception, even though only as a cell. What is important is not the accident of size or weight but the essence " which is fully human. The unborn baby has a distinct, unchanging and unrepeatable genetic code, unique in all of history, from the moment of conception till death. Nothing is added except nutrition and oxygen. Late-term abortion refers to the deliberate killing of babies whose mothers are far along in their pregnancies. That"s where the phrase "late-term" comes from. What does that mean? It means that the baby looks like a baby, acts like a baby, sounds like a baby and, if it"s born at this point, would have a fighting chance of living like a baby. Late-term abortions are performed on women who advanced months into their pregnancies before their "desperation" set in. This "service" requires that the women be put through horrific medical procedures that involve giving them large doses of contraction-stimulating hormones to induce unusually violent and painful labor and delivery. A nurse who assisted in these things told me that the doctors they worked for deliberately stimulated contractions so violent that the contractions would usually kill the baby while it was being born. Aside from what this does to the baby, what do you think it does to the woman? The grisly and illegal procedure we call "partial birth abortion" requires that the baby be delivered feet first, then the delivery stopped so that the doctor can suction out the baby"s brain before it is legally born. Proponents of this procedure talked about how it was necessary for "women"s health." But I ask you, aside from what it does to the baby, what do you think that does to the woman? How is that consistent with "women"s health?" I"m not talking about her emotions here. I am talking about labor and delivery practices that are painful, dangerous and quite horrible for the woman. How is this something that protects "women"s health?" The answer is, it doesn't. In addition to what this does to the woman, consider for a moment that many of these babies must be deliberately killed before the procedure takes place to keep them from being born alive. The way I"ve heard that this is usually done is to give the baby a shot of poison directly into its heart. This means jabbing a needle through the mother"s abdomen and into the baby. It means the mother has to feel her baby thrash around the avoid the needle, then feel it die. All this is done to keep the legal fiction that this late-term abortion is not, in fact, a cold-blooded murder. In spite of this, many of these babies are born alive. The doctor might miss the mark and not shoot the poison into the baby"s heart. Or, the dose might be too small. Or, the doctor doesn't administer the death-dealing drug and the baby is strong enough to survive the excessively violent contractions the doctor puts the mother through.