A fetus is not a baby because it’s not been born yet and it can’t have any feelings or even a conscience.
It’s an “it” for a reason. It’s not a “he” or a “she”.
If I had been aborted, then I wouldn’t know any better so it wouldn’t matter to me. [/quote]
The question that I asked regarding whether or not you thought that a premature baby had feelings was in reference to this statement that you made.
It was not a legal question. Obviously abortion is legal and there’s not much any one person can do about it. I’m not trying to change your mind because I know that once a person has dug in their heels on an issue like this it’s pretty futile to try. I’m just wondering when you think a baby or “fetus” starts to have feelings. It’s interesting to me because I used to think the way you do. It never occured to me to do anything else but abort an unwanted pregnancy because it’s just a ball of cells- right? I didn’t change my mind until I went through my own (wanted) pregnancy and saw through ultrasounds how early the baby is formed and seems sensate. It has been shown, for example, that a fetus at 9 weeks responds to light touching of the feet and face. Fetuses will also start to touch their own genitals very early on. I have an ultrasound video of my youngest child yawning when I was 16 weeks pregnant.
