Too bad you stopped following @WillWorkForChocolate , since many people have posted that in almost all of the late term abortions that happen, the baby CANNOT live outside the womb. That’s kind of the whole point of this.
I am someone who is pro-choice. But I would never have an abortion myself—or at least I thought so until I read some of the reasons why people have late term abortions. If I found out after 20 weeks that I had a fetus with a lethal defect and that baby had no chance of living for more than a few agonizing minutes – then NO I would not want to carry it to term.
Why torture my own body for 15 or so weeks having a pregnancy which I know for a fact will be doomed? The ONLY decent thing about the last trimester of pregnancy is that you know when it’s over, you will get to have your baby at the end. If you know for a fact that you will NOT be taking home a live baby at the end, and you will have to watch a tiny human being with many birth defects slowly die from multiple organ failures or never take a breath because they had no lungs.. what torture would that be??
I don’t understand why so many people are focusing on the number of weeks and totally ignoring the fact that almost all of these fetuses have lethal defects. Some of them may be thriving in the womb because the mother is doing all the breathing, eating and eliminating for them. Almost all of the fetuses being aborted at this critical period are UNABLE to do at least 1 of these functions on their own and will never be able to do them. Many of them will be unable to do all three even if they were brought to full term.
I hope I never ever have to make that choice. I wouldn’t ever wish it on my worst enemy. It’s a horrible idea to think that you could get so excited about a pregnancy and just when you think you’re halfway over you get told that your little future son or daughter’s brain stopped developing at a critical point or that vital organs are missing/nonfunctioning or outside of the fetuses body and can’t be put back in. Or they are missing vital chromosomes that caused a lethal defect.
These parents have two wonderful choices. Carry a baby to term that they know will die hours or days after he is born OR they can have an abortion and save the 15 weeks or whatever of people saying “Wooo! A baby! Aren’t you excited? What are you having? When are you due?” And 15 weeks of feeling kicks and wriggles..
I can’t think of anything more torturous.
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I did write something about one of my nephews, but I’ll save it for later. It made for too much of a TLDR.