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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
We're still waiting on your definition, of course.
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I never claimed to have a definition.
But to address the differences in your feelings about an early pregnancy miscarriage vs. a late pregnancy premature birth, I think the time and the tangible aspects of the pregnancy are the reason it seems different if you loose a baby early on than if you lose the baby later on in the pregnancy. If someone miscarries after only a few weeks of being pregnant, the pregnancy hasn't yet shown and the child is still rather intangible to you. You have this image of who the child is in your mind, but not much else. And when the miscarriage occurs early on, you didn't have much time to develop feelings for this child. I think that even seeing an ultrasound of the baby can have a tremendous psychological impact on parents simpley because it is something tangible that they can see. Same is true when the pregnancy starts to show.
However, I don't think that the point at which a parent develops strong feelings for an unborn child is relevant to what point a fetus' rights vest.
