Why do we teach young women that a fetus isn't a baby?

Because we now have atheist Socialist teachers lying to our children now

Better than christians who have been lying for centuries.

I don't know Gracie but I know that even Drs say that.

Well, make certain not to kill any cells today- or else you'll be charged with murder.

Pregnant women can abort as many fetuses as they choose to.

Whenever a woman chooses to have an abortion they call the baby a "fetus". Whenever a woman has a miscarriage they say "lost the baby". People sometimes have funerals and burials for miscarried babies. I guess it's onlt a baby when it's convenient.

Very Good Point!

Maybe because those mothers who lost a potential child of theirs are too overcome with grief to worry about using the proper name for it?

seriously? WOW

Yeah, seriously. If I had a miscarriage I would be a little too preoccupied to worry about foetus versus baby versus zygote, etc.

If it's just a zygot or a bunch of cells why would you be preoccupied?

Because I would've been anticipating a child. I'd be mourning what I never got to have.

That's my point. It's a baby if you want it and a fetus if you don't. That's hypocritical.

It's not. It's still a foetus if you want it. But most people who lose a foetus they were planning to keep had already started imagining that foetus as the baby it was going to be after birth.

Oh come on, it doesn't matter how you spin it, people choose the terminology that they feel will justify their actions.

No they do not. If you check out all the medical book, you will find out exactly what the terminology really is.

I have a degree in the healthcare arena. I am familiar with medical terminology and I know that people choose different words depending on the situation.

ummm no... if they are overcome with grief, they truly loved and wanted the baby... they are not going to call it some cold terminology. That's my opinion, though

...That's exactly what I've been saying.

my point is that I don't believe grief stricken parents might forget to use the proper name.

Oh, right. Sorry, misread your post.
I don't know about other potential parents, but I know that if I ever miscarried I would still refer to it as a foetus.

The point is that many who miscarry at a very early stage in their pregnancy when teh fetus is only extremely tiny, still refer to it as a baby when it does not even resemble anything that looks even remotely like a baby at all.

The grief is about an idea, not the reality.

at what point is it a reality?

So, they are prepared to lie to themselves instead.

It convenient for the anti choice people who refuse to use the proper names.

Because a seed isn't a flower.

And an idiot is never pro life either!

A few cells is not a child either. If a pro-fetus was the least bit worried about children there would not be over 140,000 children in foster care today that will never have a loving family of their own.

A few cells! And just what the hell do you think those cells are, a damn chicken perhaps?

The real question isn't why we don't call it a baby, but rather why we don't call it a human.

Baby is just a word, multiplying cells of human content is the beginnings of a potential life.

We don't teach young women that a fetus isn't a baby. Progressives do.

Fetuses do not have a functioning brain or nervous system either.

Really? Ever seen a 3D ultrasound?

Yes I have. A beating heart is not what determines life. It is brain activity!

You amaze me, then. Just out of curiosity, what did you learn in Biology regarding what organ governs heartbeat?

Ever pricked one with a needle?
At one time we did not believe that plants or even lower animals felt pain but recent discoveries ave shown this to be false. Many scientist now theorize that a fetus can feel pain as early as 12 weeks with the developement of the Pons and Hypocampus wich make up our 'primitive brain'.

You are being fooled by propoganda by prolifers./


New Study Denying Fetal Pain Lacks Scientific Basis Pro-Life Groups Say

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – A new study from members of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists lacks a strong scientific basis and ignores the evidence supplies in several previous studies supplied by leading researchers in the field, say pro-life groups who are criticizing the new report.

As LifeNews.com reported last week, the new study, from a Working Party of RCOG, disputes an overwhelming body of evidence that unborn children can feel pain in utero.

The new study claims the nerve connections to the brain are not fully developed to the point at which babies before birth have the ability to feel pain.

While claiming fetal pain doesn’t begin until late in pregnancy, the doctors also suggest that, after 24 weeks into the pregnancy, unborn children are in a state of "continuous sleep-like unconsciousness or sedation."

I have pricked a 24 week gestation baaby with a needle to do a blood gas and it reacted.

This one is a bit further along than that but I have worked with a few 24 wekk gestations. They are wrong.
Studies using ultrasounds have shown that a fetus reacts to stimulation in the womb. For example, neurobiologist M. Fitzgerald reported in "Neurobiology of Fetal and Neonatal Pain" (1994) that at 7.5 weeks' gestation, a fetus responds to stimuli. Around 10.5 weeks, a fetus whose mouth region is touched will bend his or her head in response, and the palms of the hands become sensitive to stroking. The rest of the body and legs become sensitive at approximately 13.5 weeks

Read more: At What Stage of Development Does Fetus Feel Pain? | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/facts_501...

I agree wholeheartedly. I'm a mother of 2 and am 24 weeks pregnant with baby number 3. My baby responds to my touch. When I touch my tummy my baby moves in response. If I pat the left side the baby moves to the right etc. or sometimes kicks at the spot where I have patted. Now tell me that if she didn't feel anything how would she know to move? Also when there is a loud noise she jumps, and even gets hiccups as a result of a fright from noises! So if she is what these abortionists claim then how can she react? I know when my baby is sleeping and when she's awake as I feel her movements changing. If I eat ice cream she feels the cold and becomes aggitated and kicks wildly even if I know she was sleeping before I ate it. So she most definately has a sense of feeling. My baby responds to her father's voice when spoken to through my tummy, she begins kicking when she hears him.

"At the end of the fourth week, the embryo is 1/8th of an inch in length and it weighs less than three hundredths of an ounce. The embryo has grown 10,000 times bigger than the original egg on the day of fertilization.

The second four weeks of development is a time of extremely rapid and crucial development as the embryo quadruples in size. Its cells are constantly differentiating to form new structures. The brain begins controlling the movement of muscles and organs. The brain waves can be detected and recorded."

http://www.uky.edu/Classes/PH...