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WebMd, a highly recognized and esteemed source of medical information, considers it a baby from conception.
"Month One of Pregnancy
The amniotic sac is a water-tight sac that forms around the fertilized egg. It helps cushion the growing embryo throughout pregnancy.
The placenta also develops at this point in the first trimester. The placenta is a round, flat organ that transfers nutrients from the mother to the baby, and transfers waste from the baby.
A primitive face takes form with large dark circles for eyes. The mouth, lower jaw, and throat are developing. Blood cells are taking shape, and circulation will begin. By the end of the first month of pregnancy, your baby is around 6-7mm (1/4 inch) long - about the size of a grain of rice!"
WebMd, a highly recognized and esteemed source of medical information, considers it a baby from conception.
"Month One of Pregnancy
The amniotic sac is a water-tight sac that forms around the fertilized egg. It helps cushion the growing embryo throughout pregnancy.
The placenta also develops at this point in the first trimester. The placenta is a round, flat organ that transfers nutrients from the mother to the baby, and transfers waste from the baby.
A primitive face takes form with large dark circles for eyes. The mouth, lower jaw, and throat are developing. Blood cells are taking shape, and circulation will begin. By the end of the first month of pregnancy, your baby is around 6-7mm (1/4 inch) long - about the size of a grain of rice!"
Your characterization is a misguided as the rest of your posts here. WebMD is not a highly respected and esteemed source of medical knowledge, although it's better than some websites. It's not something a medical professional uses as a source of information. Plus the target audience for that consumer-oriented (not medical) article are women who have desired and healthy pregnancies. That doesn't mean it's a scientific fact or that it's proof that your opinion is anything more than your opinion.
You are free to believe whatever you personally want to believe and act accordingly. You are not free to impose that belief on others and demand that they act according to your beliefs instead of their own.
I'm not sure why you and others here are anti-science, but biological life requires homeostasis.
Biology, embryology, genetics inform that life begins at conception. Whether a nation or government chooses to call that life a 'person' or give it rights are societal, legal, and political issues.
There are plenty of women who think that prostitution should be legal, you know that right?
Here are some of the arguments why - an article that happens to have been written by a woman
But that's not really on topic for this discussion other than the very general theme of women having control over their own bodies. But this thread isn't about the government regulating the right to abortion, it's about men thinking their opinions should be controlling over what women do.
And they shouldn't be allowed to control what women can do with their bodies.But yet, the do.
I too am a woman. I think it's BS that a man can jog down the street without a shirt on, but if I do it, I will be arrested and thrown in jail for indecent exposure. So much for laws being equal.
False equivalencies remain false no matter how many times they get repeated.
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Originally Posted by hothulamaui
Two different scenarios and not comparable.
So, now you think survival rate is irrelevant. Lol, yeah, it mattered when you threw it out there.
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