I don't see the difference between killing a baby with a beating heart inside the womb and killing a baby with a beating heart outside the womb. I mean by the pro-choice logic, why not have the baby check it out and see if you like it or not and then if you don't then kill it. The only minor difference is that the baby is not attached to a placenta anymore. Stopping a babies beating heart at any stage in its life is still killing it no matter how you word it. A babies heart starts beating 11 days after conception. Talk all you want about the mothers choice and how it wasn't fair that she got raped and how she shouldn't have to carry an unwanted child but the one simple fact remains that you are still killing a baby. Doesn't that baby deserve as much of a choice as that mother?
That's ridiculous. 'A babies heart starts beating 18-21 days after conception.' 'your baby probably has fingernails' Guess what? Every woman has fingernails, and a beating heart. Every woman has the ability to feel pain, and disgust and shame for what's been done to them. And you want to force them to carry a materiel memory of it? That 18 day old beating heart doesn't know what rape is. Or the difference between life and death. If you honestly have any memories from when you were in the womb, please share.
Between conception and an embryos 8th week is when some of the most crucial parts of it's development take place. Like it's heart, spinal cord, and other vital organs. I didn't have to look very far online to find woman talking about how far along they were when they found out they were pregnant. Most of them are between 3 - 7 weeks and some women didn't know until up to 13 weeks. So when a hardcore alcoholic or crack head gets pregnant and doesn't find out until there's been irreversible damage done to the embryo inside her, she should be forced to carry an unhealthy or deformed fetus with it's heart growing outside of it's chest, to term? Women who experience severe emotional stress in the first trimester of pregnancy, such as the death of a child, or being brutally raped, are more likely than women who do not experience that type of stress to have a baby with defects of a particular type, mainly heart defects or cleft lip, cleft palate, or both. Every woman should have the right to want a healthy, normal child that was born out of love and not torture. A child that will not be subjected to multiple surgeries, or a debilitating mental disorder that will leave them being ridiculed and looked down on by their peers for the rest of their life. And the right to decide for themselves that maybe they're not fit out to be a parent just yet.
Not all women who get pregnant by accident got pregnant because they were stupid, irresponsible, or a slut. Condoms and birth control are not 100% effective. So when you preach that abortion is murder, you are telling every young woman who's ever had an abortion that she should feel bad and ashamed of herself for wanting to live the life of a normal teenager, for wanting to finish her education, or for wanting to wait until she has a husband, a good job, and her own house to be a parent. Teenage women who are pregnant or mothers are seven times more likely to commit suicide than other teenagers.
And the people who run around saying "well what about adoption" "you could always give it up for adoption" are living in some kind of fairy land. For one the world is already vastly over populated, and the foster system is overflowing. The most recent statistics I can find state that 'On September 30, 2006, there were an estimated 510,000 children in foster care', and that's not included the ones from private adoption agencies. That's over half a million children. And out of that 500,000+ children in foster care, only 51,000 were actually adopted that year, which isn't a much higher statistic than the combined 21,877 children who were adopted from foreign countries.
There are approximately 1.3 million homeless teens living on the streets of America. And every year an estimated 20,000 teens 'age-out' of foster care. That's 200,000 teens between 2000 and now. 20% of these teens end up homeless because they lack the support systems most young adults take for granted. Another 42% have become parents themselves, and less than 46% end up graduating high school. Aged-out foster care teens are at a higher risk for substance abuse, domestic violence and poverty. Children in foster care have an overall higher mortality rate than children in the general population. A study conducted in Finland among current and former foster children up to age 24 found a higher mortality rate due to substance abuse, accidents, suicide and illness.
So Is birthing a child into the foster care system really so much better than terminating it before it even knows it's alive?
