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The fetal stage commences at the beginning of the 9th week. At the start of the fetal stage, the fetus is typically about 1.2 inches in length.
there is no limit to the patheticness of Liberals.
months spent blaming the GOP because they can't pass a health care 'plan' that is shit that the public nor even 50 of their own Senators support, and now they are blaming the unborn.
in fact it is about denying responsibility for a choice already made.
of course, Responsibility is a dirty word in the Liberal Theology....
when you talked DJs mom out of an abortion what did you save?
"personal responsibility"
blah blah blah
"American People"
blah blah blah
"Liberals"
blah blah blah
"Barack Hussain Mohammad Jihad Obama"
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
(repeat from beginning)
So yes, politicians are timid, and to be sure, "framing" is still a hip buzzword. But there is plenty of room to carve out all sorts of policies from the contradictory set of opinions that the electorate collectively holds.
If you want fewer abortions, rather than making them illegal (which forces them underground, where the abortion is far more likely to take the life of the mother as well), make sex-ed sex-positive. Teach youths that there are ways to enjoy their bodies that significantly lower the risk of pregnancy and transmission of disease; that would lower the number of abortions. Of course the anti-abortionists don't like that because it teaches youths that sexuality is a good thing and isn't just for married heterosexual couples making babies.
How is an embryo (they used the word "fetus" incorrectly, yeah) a "recognizable human life", anyway? Does it have the ability to live even for a second outside the womb? Does it have a brain? Is he alive or dead? Has he thoughts within his head? Functionally, an embryo or even an early-term fetus is still just a part of its mother; its genetic distinctness means nothing, as tumors are also genetically distinct from their victim.
An embryo relies on the mother's willingness to volunteer her body and the nutrients she provides; her right to her own body trumps any perceived right to continue existing that the embryo may be accorded.
Go ahead, keep digging. But stop and tell me if you discover a brown leather wallet with a picture of Ronald Reagan in a banana suit in it; my dog's been a bit funny lately.
Repeat forever.
So stop doing them a favor and calling anti-choice advocates "pro-lifers". It's a biased and misleading term they (cleverly) latched onto, but that doesn't mean pro-choice advocates need to play their game!
Whether a woman chooses to continue her unplanned pregnancy or not is her private business; certainly not the Government's—or anyone else's.
Dan's last one, about black abortions and slavery, is still chugging along.
They're not interested in anyone else's opinion. I seriously doubt they actually care about any other humans outside their out clique. They labor under the delusion that spouting off pre-packaged talking points somehow helps their cause. Maybe they do this because they're only interested in taunting/insulting/verbally shaming those they hate.
So, anonymous troll, I'm on to you. If you can demonstrate to me that you have any amount of respect and decency, I may think differently of your kind. All you are doing right now is proving that the right-wing are people are immature, unsophisticated rubes who prefer to hate and ridicule.
Polling on abortion is complicated because, for most Americans, it's not an either/or proposition, even if you're solidly 'pro-life'. Not one 'lifer' can exclude the fact there are circumstances where they'd support an abortion. Nor does every 'choicer' agree with abortion.
I'm a 'choicer' because no one has the right to tell another human what to do with their body. But as a father I'm repulsed by it, because my kids, who are everything to me, were once the size of a period.
It's all a continuum, but the religious like to define everything in terms of black/white. Reality works a bit differently.
I don't think you'll find many, if any, pro-choice advocates who think that abortion is a reasonable birth-control choice. It's a last-ditch, worst case solution, and I think that any woman who's made that choice would agree. And to be fair we probably paint all the pro-lifers with a fascist 1984-esqe brush.
But really at the end of the day for most of us it all boils down to a very simple principal laid down by the great Theodore Sturgeon:
"I'll live by your rules in your house, and you can live by your rules in my house; but I'll be damned before I live by your rules in my house"
Sorry kids, my house, my rules.