On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:40:51 +0000, Marie A. wrote:

> "rms1" <rms1@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:<4iAPa.50015$0v4.3380057@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
>> 
>> While it is an interesting play on words, it's still not a good argument
>> against the legality of abortion.  You can call it "woman's rights" or
>> "human rights" or whatever you want.  However, there is nothing even close
>> to a universal agreement that fetuses are full human beings with the
>> accompanying legal rights.  And when abortion is used as a means to save a
>> woman's life (as it has in numerous cases), then isn't it against a woman's
>> right to life to deny the procedure?
> 
> I was wondering if you might tell the rest of us why it's a "fetus"
> when it's not wanted and aborted at six months, and a baby when it is
> wanted and successfully delivered at that same stage of pregnancy?
> Please explain the difference here, if any. Does not wanting it, and
> calling it a fetus, perhaps aid in the rationalization  of the evil
> going on here?

Because there *are* huge differences between a
fetus and a new-born baby.  Whenever a baby is
born -- wheter it's after six or nine months in
the woumb -- it's physologically very different
from the fetus it was moments before.

The blood flows differently after umblical-cord
is cut... The lungs starts working with a scream...
and they won't stop before the person the baby
becomes dies... Many organs and systems -- like
the stomac -- suddenly have to be used... because
the cord has been cut -- systems that doesn't work
for some reason, can no longer be backed-up by
the mothers systems.

It's a *huge* transition -- from something that is
part of another body and are kept a live by this
other body, to something with systems that can keep
*itself* alive.

If the fetus survives the seperation from it's host,
it's because these changes happens... and that make
the x-fetus into a baby.
 
> I was also wondering, when women are pregnant and looking forward to
> having their baby, why they view a miscarriage with such deep sorrow.
> Like, what are they mourning here? Just a fetus? If a fetus is just a
> bunch of nothing as your crowd is always suggesting, why are they
> crying over this blob of nothing? Maybe you can tackle these two
> questions.             (Marie)

It's like asking why some look forward to a fish-dinner
and others doesn't... it depends on wheter it's wanted
or not.  To loose something you really want is difficult...
if you on the other hand wants to loose something -- if
that is you wish -- then thats another matter.

-Koppe


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