Why are babies in the womb for 9 mo but arent 9 mo old when theyre born?
Can someone explain that to me?
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Because the cycle of pre-birth biology goes like this:
Egg
Zygote (fertilized egg)
Embryo
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FetusThey're only in the "developing" stage in pregnancy. Normal age progression doesn't happen until birth. I read somewhere though that in China (I think?) the newborns are considered a year old there.
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Because date of birth is an easy, observable and reliable standard to determine age. Any other way leaves too much room for nature, error and fraud. Few babies are born at exactly 280 days from the last menstrual period anyway. I think it's only like 5% that are born precisely at the date they 'should' be and you'd have to know the exact day you concieved to even begin calculating. Not possible for most, especially historically when marital rape was so common.
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Seriously? Most anti-abortion people are religious and believe life begins at conception.
And in history, before diagnostic tools like pregnancy tests and ultrasounds, few people knew their conception date or even had a good idea of it.
It's plain logical to treat a birth date as the first day of life because it's virtually unmistakeable and can be applied as a standard to everyone because everyone HAS to have one and it can be easily observed, confirmed and recorded. Gestation periods can vary from days to weeks off from 9 months. Religion has little to do with it besides the whole 'miracle of life' crap.
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Come on. I'm just trying to liven up this place with a fun question I actually want an answer to, Mel. I figured with all the incest trolls and kids who are trying to see what they can get away with posting, one fun question to get me and possibly someone else thinking would be good.
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The cells are alive and they are human. You can acknowledge this and still be OK with abortion. It seems like a lot of pro-choicers have to deny the whole human/alive thing to justify abortion. The only justification needed is that you don't want to be pregnant anymore. No need to try to reason it away beyond that.
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You can acknowledge it's alive while still being OK with ending it. No different than taking antibiotics to get rid of an infection. Something is living inside the body and you don't want it to anymore...why go through the ruse of pretending it's not really alive? If you have to do that song and dance then you don't really believe in abortion, do you? The only reason needed for abortion should be 'I want this to end', no supporting essay or additional thought necessary.
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I was just sayin'...I don't think it's necessary to descend into the whole is it alive thing to justify abortion. I personally recognize it is killing. It is stopping life. But I think that is OK, I've had more than one abortion myself. It's better than suffering through an unwanted pregnancy. If you want it out then that's good enough, no need to justify it or feel bad if you don't feel anything. Some people, including pro-choice, insist you must feel something for the fetus. Well, not everybody does. In fact, some are made to feel bad for not feeling bad about it!
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