Killing Babies is NOT Acceptable!

A recent Abortion Gang post, was based on, and led me to, a Tumblr post regarding the "a fetus is not a baby" argument. 

The author of the Tumblr "Digging For Roots", writes:

every time I see posts that are screaming about how a fetus is not a baby, a fetus is not a baby, a fetus is not a baby

all *I* can think about is that I lost - by miscarriage - eight fetuses (that I know for sure). Fetuses that were wanted. Fetuses that were prior to 120 days and therefore logically I know did not have their soul yet***. But TO ME they were real, and they were babies. They were loved, they were named, they were deaths that were very difficult for me (and their fathers) to deal with.

So while we are wont to scream so loudly that a fetus is not a baby and therefore it is not murder for the person carrying them to decide for themselves if they wish to continue to do so or not - and I agree with this - could we take a moment to realize that saying they are not babies also erases the experience of people who miscarry and are grieving over their loss(es)?

***The authors religious belief (Muslim), is that a fetus/baby does not receive a soul until 120 days.

The author is 'pro' the choice for a woman to decide if her fetus lives or dies, yet to her, her babies were real, they were loved, they even had names.  To me, this is no different than allowing someone to kill their toddler, while you would never consider killing yours.

On to the post at Abortion Gang, the author Kushielsmoon attempts (and fails) to bridge the gap, or perhaps widen it, between wanted babies lost in miscarriage, and unwanted babies killed intentionally by abortion.

Legally, fetuses are not infants, are not considered persons, and thus, having an abortion is not murder. But we must remember, the personal is different from the legal. Pregnancy is different for every single woman- and one woman may experience multiple pregnancies in very different ways. A woman may consider her fetus to be ababy, or already a person, because she plans to carry to term. Another woman may consider her fetus to be a baby  even though she is planning to have an abortion. Those feelings and beliefs are normal, valid,  and should be perfectly acceptable.

Using the term “baby” doesn’t hurt the pro-choice position at all. If a woman believes that abortion is the best option for her baby, then we should support her in her choice.

For her, my opinion on the baby vs. fetus debate isn’t relevant.

She states that it should be 'perfectly acceptable' for a woman to abort her fetus, whether she considers he/she a fetus, or a baby.  In truth, it really doesn't matter if a developing human is referred to as a fetus (the medical term), or as a baby (the term most of us use), it doesn't change what he/she is. 

In essence, what she is saying, is that it should be perfectly acceptable for a woman to kill her baby.  Try to wrap your head around that.

Legally, abortion is not murder, but that fact doesn't make an aborted human fetus any less dead, does it? 

Look at the pictures below.

In the United States, it is legal to kill a baby at this stage of development. 

 

In the United States, it is legal to kill a baby at this stage of development.

In the United States, it is legal to kill a baby at this stage of development.

Most people assume all abortions are performed early in pregnancy, let's say 8 wks. In fact, most are.  But in reality, of the 1.2 million abortions performed in the United States annually, almost 80,000 are done at 16-20 weeks (4 to 5 months), and more that 200,000 are done at 13-15 weeks (3 to 4 months). 

So when you hear a pro-choicer scream about a woman's right to abortion, remember that legal abortion kills babies like the one's above, right here in the United States of America.  When did we get so low on the moral compass, that this would be 'acceptable'?  It shouldn't be.