In short, the heartbeat, brain, and spinal cord indicated a living human being who possessed all the necessary organs to feel the PAIN OF ITS DEATH. Yup, at just 8 weeks.
At 12 weeks (just 3 months - the end of the first trimester), the baby is nearly fully formed, with fingers, toes, lips, eyes, etc., needing only nourishment, oxygen, and time to grow.
My children reacted to light and sound by the 4th month. By the 5th month, I could sing them to sleep.
I hemmoraghed in my 32nd week of my daughter's pregnancy (a full two months before her due date). She was only 4 lbs. 13 oz at birth. She was moved to a different hospital for her critical neo-natal care and did not improve while we were separated.
I demanded that the Doctor release me after only 2 days and immediately went to her side. After each visit, her stats jumped considerably. When I got to hold her, skin against skin, her face against my heart, and rock her for over an hour, singing, cooing, and kissing her the whole time, stroking her lovingly, not caring about anything but the precious blessing in my arms, her recovery was amazing. She went from needing a breathing machine, a feeding tube through her stomach, and multiple IVs to our loving home, free of everything, in just 12 days.
No one can tell me my exquisite daughter didn't know me; I saw the proof of our love with my own eyes. Yet there are people who thinks its okay to kill babies at 32 weeks, to force the mother into labor, stab a pointed instrument through the base of their head, suck out their brains, collapse their skull, and drag their body out for disposal in the garbage.
The only difference between my beloved daughter and those precious victims is that I VALUED her life while their mothers did not.
So9
I just wanted to point out that at 8 weeks EVERYTHING has already developed and cells have differentiated and the baby simply has to grow. The baby feels pain at 8 weeks, and since most women don't know they're pregnant until 4-6 weeks (and sometimes later if they are not "planning" the pregnancy), they don't abort until 8-12 weeks and the baby feels the intense pain of being sucked into a vacuum, or sliced and diced before being torn out of her mother's womb.
I honestly do not believe that most women who "choose" to abort really know what they are doing. PP and the pro-aborts sure aren't going to tell them that their "fetus" feels pain; most women who "choose" abortion have said they feel like they have NO CHOICE -- they are pressured by friends, family and boyfriends to have the abortion (usually by people who haven't had one and have no clue what emotional and physical pain they are heaping on the poor woman!)
We need to give women a REAL choice -- the only choice that respects THEM and respects LIFE. Help women help themselves, helping them with outs so they don't feel they have "no choice" but abortion. EDUCATION is a start ... they need to know exactly what they are doing. But love, charity and mercy are also needed.
May God bless the women who abort, and help them heal their wounds, and may God bless the souls of the aborted and keep the innocent babies with him in Heaven.
Post 106 is check-mate. Thanks for playing.