Life? Choice? Baby? Pregnancy?

Have you ever read a pregnancy book? I'm currently working my way through 21 of them as part of my midwifery course. And as I've read I've been amazed at the dichotomy and duplicity of every author's vocabulary when it comes to the baby. On one page they will tell you that it is so wonderful to do a sonogram and see the heartbeat, or to see how the baby is definitely a tiny human, and then turn right around and say that if such and such is wrong (downs syndrome, or other defects) the "pregnancy" can be terminated! It is mind blowing to think that in our country right now you can have an abortion up to 24 weeks of gestation! Most people have already felt the baby move by that time, and yet it's legal to "terminate" the "pregnancy" if you so chose? They can't even say that it's just tissue then, they cant even use that argument for a 12 abortion! Babies look distinctly human by the 12th week and if you do an ultra sound you will see a heartbeat and get to see the baby moving around even though you can't feel it yet.

And the thought of killing a baby just because there is "something wrong" sickens me. How would it be if went around killing all of the born people that we thought had something wrong with them? Oh that right that already happened in Germany under Hitler and the whole world thought it was WRONG!! But it's just fine to kill that unborn, though no less alive, baby because it has and extra chromosome or isn't formed just the way you want it? And woman's choice? That woman made a choice to sleep with that guy and now you can face the consequences like a woman! In the case of rape you didn't make that choice but it's not that baby's fault either and you shouldn't kill it just because it's daddy is a worthless piece of slime sucking scum. Even if you can't raise the baby there are hundreds of couples who can't have children and would LOVE to adopt that little baby. It is a new life. Not a "choice"

Building on that, I think our society's definition of life is way off. I believe that life starts at conception, others believe that it starts at birth, however let's define life with death. Clinical death occurs when the heart stops beating and the person is then pronounced dead. By law of opposites life should be defined by when there is a heartbeat. That happens at 6 weeks! So you can argue that life doesn't start at conception, but it sure as heck starts long before birth, and it is legal to take that life until the 24th week.

 It saddens me to see people kidding themselves and others by referring to that life, that baby, as just a "pregnancy" when you want to "terminate", a.k.a. kill, it.

Thus ends my rant for the day.