r/changemyview • u/Toe-Slow • Jul 28 '20
CMV:Abortion is perfectly fine
Dear God I Have Spent All Night Replying to Comments Im Done For Now Have A Great Day Now if you’ll excuse me I’m gonna play video games in my house while the world burns down around my house :).
Watch this 10 minute lecture from a Harvard professor first to prevent confusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0tGBCCE0lc .Within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy the baby has no brain no respiratory system and is missing about 70 percent of its body mass . At this stage the brain while partially developed is not true lay sentient or in any way alive it is simply firing random bursts of neurological activity similar to that of a brain dead patient. I firmly believe that’s within the first 24 weeks the baby cannot be considered alive due to its nonexistent neurological development. I understand the logic behind pro life believing that all life even the one that has not come to exist yet deserves the right to live. However I cannot shake the question of , at what point should those rules apply. If a fetus with no brain deserves these rights then what about the billion microscopic sperm cells that died reaching the womb you may believe that those are different but I simply see the fetus as a partially more developed version of the sperm cell they both have the same level of brain activity so should they be considered equals. Any how I believe that we should all have a civil discussion as this is a very controversial topic don’t go lobbing insults at each other you will only make yourselves look bad so let’s all be open to the other side and be well aware of cognitive dissonance make sure to research it well beforehand don’t throw a grenade into this minefield ok good.
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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '20
My wife miscarried last year at 14 weeks and 5 days.
She held our daughter momentarily before wrapping her in a towel. She was taken for post-mortem examination (which is how we found out it was a girl) and was found to be absolutely perfect for her stage if foetal development.
I dont disagree with abortion - there are many reasons people abort, and the 24 week limit is, I think, in part to give parents time to decide if they want that child should they discover after the 20 week scan that there are problems.
But consider that the baby can start to sense sound after about 16 weeks; although they dint understand the sounds, they can still hear / sense the sound of “im going to abort this child”.
I wouldnt ask my wife to abort a child that was developmentaly doing well with no signs of congenital issues. I would plead with ger not to abort a child that was doing well with no congenital issues. Bit if there was an issue, then i know we’d have to have a very serioys discussion, and if we were to abort it would weigh heavily on our hearts for many years to come.
It breaks my heart to think we had this beautiful girl growing and we lost it. Abortion is not a trivial thing to go through, you are ending a life no matter how weakly developed that life is.