There are many myths and misconceptions surrounding abortion. Is a fetus really considered a child? Some people believe that abortion is killing a fetus, and a fetus is not yet a child; but facts state otherwise. According to the dictionary, the word child is defined as being a human fetus. If the fetus is in the process of developing, then at what point will it be classified as a child. Based on the definition, it is safe to say that a fetus is a child.
People that are pro-choice do not view a fetus as being a child; in their words, it is a human. Some say that the fetus is not a child so it is humane to get an abortion. From a pro-choice website one person states “It’s certainly human, the fetus, but it’s not a child. It has the potential to become a child and over the years, gain personhood, but as a fetus, it’s just that, a fetus” (Reasons for Irony). “When a woman has an abortion the doctors will often refer to her baby as ‘the contents of the womb’ or a ‘blob of jelly’ etc. A woman who chooses abortion is not given the facts about the development of her child in the womb.” (SPUC
Scotland, Society for the). Doctors refer to the women’s pregnancy using words such as baby, unborn child, and fetus when not in the presence of their pregnant patients. That counteracts the argument that a woman is not carrying a developing human.
Pro-lifers believe that abortion is killing a child; they refer to the developing human as a child. The same terminology as those that are pro-choice. An attorney, Ann Marshall, argued that “if unborn children can be crime victims … prosecution of pregnant women who drink and give birth to babies with fetal alcohol syndrome” found guilty of destroying a human life. (Christy Hoppe, Anti-abortion leader). Those babies that are born with fetal alcohol syndrome can not…..I believe that a fetus is a child and that when you get an abortion it is a child that you are aborting not just cells. Calling a child a fetus does not eliminate the fact that the fetus is developing human; a living breathing human.
I gave birth to a child with FAS and i am the most important person to him in his chilhood, teenage years and now his yound adulthood. Prosecuting a person for producing a child with FAS will encourage more women to stay silent and more children less likely to get the services and support they will need through life.
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