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What the hell is a 'fetus' but a not-yet-born human child?

No, the 'human child' is not fully developed after 2 weeks. Therefore, it's not a human child, it's a fetus.

So, you're advocating that somehow we should look at the killing of the innocent, yet-unborn child as a preference to the 12 year-old giving birth. As if somehow by killing the unborn child the 12 year-old is relieved of trauma?

I know that this will greatly upset you, but you're not the person who gets to decide. The child gets to decide. I know you would impose any hardship on a child who has already suffered much (by putting a gun against her head and forcing her to continue to bear a rapist's child), if you could, but we as a society have decided that we won't provide people like yourself with that opportunity.

"No, the 'human child' is not fully developed after 2 weeks. Therefore, it's not a human child, it's a fetus."

Stages of development is nothing but an arbitrary standard, manufactured to relieve baby-killing advocates from guilt.

The fact is that if the abortion didn't happen that whatever you call it in the womb...at whatever the stage of development...would come out as a human.

As terrible as it is to ask a 12 year-old rape victim to endure the trauma of giving birth, added to all the trauma that child has already endured, it's one hell of a sight less evil than manufacturing an arbitrary standard of legitimacy to encourage the killing of unborn babies.

Don't give me a bunch of b"llsh't about your sympathies for the 12 year-old. You don't give a crap about kids if you can cut them up just because they don't measure up to your manufactured development standard. A child--12 days old or 12 years old--is just as deserving of protection. If you care about innocent children, you care about all innocent children.

Absolutely sickening. Don't you have a conscience? Folks like you scream foul when some stupid pill prevents a fertilized egg from implanation, but putting a gun to a 12-year old's head and forcing her to carry the fetus is okay. You care about unborn 'life', but not about children that are already born. As I said, sickening. That being said, I admire your courage in answering the question, you're the first to do so.

You want sickening? Look in the mirror. You obviously are a man, with no idea about the psychological consequences of rape, much less rape AND abortion, on the same 12 yo child. It's a time bomb, even if she appears to have recovered, and you are no psychologist, to be able to assess or help.

And by the way, define "fetus." Hint: it's a Latin word....for....what?