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proudly-pro-choice:protego-et-servio:desciple1776:protego-et-servio:desciple1776:protego-et-servio:The decision to get an abortion or not is entirely up to the pregnant person.No person should be forced through pregnancy, for any reason.The people who matter most in the abortion debate are the people who may one day need an abortion. Fetuses are not the ones we need to focus on.“Forget about all the dead children! Focus on meeeeee!!!!!”So, like, you’re against people having control over their own bodies and their own medical decisions. You think a non-sentient fetus deserves more compassion and consideration that people who are capable of becoming pregnant.I think you need to take a good, hard look at your priorities.Okay at five weeks, the babies heart is beating. At 6 weeks, it gains facial features. At 8 weeks, the child has arms and legs finishing developing and it is moving. At 9 weeks, it`s eyes finish devolving. At 11 weeks, all the organs, including the brain, finish forming. At 15 weeks, the baby can see light that filters through the mother`s womb. At 19 weeks, the baby can be recorded being startled by noises.Shut up with that “non-sentient” bull shit. It`s alive. And you are looking at it and saying “no, me being comfortable is more important than the life of the unborn baby”. That`s sick. How dare you consider yourself greater than the child that is already thinking and feeling. How are you doom the child to be dissolved in an acid bath inside your womb or be picked apart by a doctor with a knife. How dare you.While GIFS are fun and sassy, that doesn’t mean you’re right. A beating heart doesn’t designate sentience. Moving limbs doesn’t designate conscious movement. Being able to see doesn’t denote consciously seeing, just as staring at a book and seeing the letters isn’t the same as actually reading. A fetus is not consciously doing anything, because they are - more or less - “off” through all stages of development. Until birth.Fetuses don’t have the physical system to sense pain until the third trimester. To be precise, thamacortical strands - which are required to feel pain - do not even begin to form until 23 to 30 weeks gestation. Even then, a certain level of consciousness is needed to realize that painful stimuli hurts you.Until birth, the fetus is doused anesthetic chemicals that keep it asleep until birth. At birth, these chemicals oxidize and awareness/consciousness rouses in the baby.Studies and reading material provided on my Informative Links link on my blog. :)The problem, however, is the fact that us born humans are hyper-aware and we tend to personify anything. We give animals, plants, and objects feelings and personalities, because we cannot imagine being without our level of sentience. Fetuses do not think, do not feel (emotions or physical stimuli,) and are not aware. They are a developing human, yes, but they are not sentient, conscious, cognizant, or subjective to the world around them.Also, if you think 40 weeks of pregnancy is only an inconvenience, you are sorely mistaken. I have gone through pregnancy and mine wasn’t even severe. I know exactly what it entails. No one should be forced through a pregnancy they do not want.Also, also, saline abortions aren’t used as often any more. Which is the “acid bath” you’re referring to. My abortion, which I had in 2013 when my daughter was 2, used aspiration, or the vacuum method, to suck the fetus out. Never once regretted it, since that decision kept food on the table and kept a roof over our heads. YAS. SHIT ON THEM-Allie -- source link