How come someone can have an abortion but once the baby is born it's considered murder to kill it?

edsawyer - goodnight, Debra

Most countries where abortion is legal, as far as I know, accept it only during the first three months of pregnancy, where the foetus isn't even properly termed a 'foetus' but rather an 'embryo' (I think). If you've ever seen pictures, it doesn't look anything like a human yet and it has no brain function and thus can feel no pain and has no awareness of its existence (for anybody wanting to ask 'how can you be sure?', all I can say is that I'm not - this is only what I've read). Well before birth, a foetus has become very much a human being (though not one that can survive independently) and then it is a crime to remove it.

Please remember that very few people who have had abortions see the question as black-and-white as many anti-choice people do. Every one of them wrestles with their own morals and conscience in their own way.

CLICKER12US

it should be considered murder. once that baby is conceived, it's got a soul and a beating heart. Any woman who does that should never be able to have another kid for the rest of their lives

Beth

People should be allowed to decide what happens to their bodies. Period.

General Solo

Because abortion is legal! Murder isn't! Even though the results are the same.

answerator

Somewhere, legally and ethically, the line has to be drawn between human life and lifeless tissue. In my opinion, it doesn't make much sense to make that point conception. Too many things can and do go wrong at that point; often there is no implantation and the woman never even knew it happened. Implantation makes a little more sense, but there are still too many variables. The embryo could have a genetic disease that makes it impossible to survive until birth, or some other disorder that causes a miscarriage.

Birth is the line that makes the most sense. After a baby is born, it is no longer entirely dependent on the mother for survival. It is, by all standards, a separate human being.

ice_rose

check out roe vs wade

calypsocirce

Becouse in teh legal sense an unborn child is not a baby but a foetus. It only becomes recognised as a person at birth. However its not a free for all before the actual birth there are also the crimes of child or foetus destruction, and if soemone attacks a pregnant woman and kills thechild in the womb it may be classed as murder.

destine4_69

I do not agree with abortion...but
A mother can have an abortion in her first trimester...dring this time the embryo is not considered a baby....after the first trimester ...the baby has began to develop...so after then....it is considered a person...if a mother kills her baby after it is born...yes she has committed the crime of murder!

It's murder either way!

tvlscat@flash.net

Because life begins at birth.

faded_shado

It is a matter of when the fetus becomes viable, before a certain point in the pregnancy the fetus could not survive outside the mother's body, once the fetus becomes viable, abortion would be murder because it would be able to survive. Go here- http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_pba1.htm

Saani_G

I'm not sure of the legal reson behind it but being pregnant is no guarantee that the baby will be born alive (still birth, miscarriage etc). Further more, the feutus only survives in the womb while the mother survises, it can not survive independently and is not yet a unique life and lacks identity. It has limited legal rights depending on where you live, in some places it is illegal to have abortions, but other than that it has no privilages such as having a legal name, being able to hold a bank account, passport etc.

If the feotus were considered the same as a born child it would need to be entitled to the full protection and benifits of the law and secular life.

Some religious people also believe that the soul doesn't enter the body until the moment of birth.

swcasper2001

Most women that have abortions are of low character anyway, and they are the ones who consider a baby part of their body until it is born.

asdf

If you kill a baby after it's born then you are killing a breathing, living human bean. There's a certain amount of time that can go by until a woman can't have an abortion. After that amount of time the baby will be developed in the whomb.

alan_district

Women cannot have abortions right near the end of their pregnancy, only in the beginning stages.

If the baby is fully developed inside and is about to come out, the mother cannot then decide to have an abortion, it's too late.

Milton

Because they like to enjoy soft copy , not to get hard copy.

llan2193

You are not charged with two counts of murder. The reasoning behind the law is the baby is not considered alive yet.

krazykiddz

Some people believe that the baby isn't alive as a fetus for a while. But my thing is: why are we so horrified by dead baby jokes, then? Aren't they the same thing?

Julian

Well, the perception is like this..
when the baby hasn't been born yet, it is not yet called killing a life. but when u have born it, the baby is a life and when u kill him, it's called murder.
But my opinion is that whether u kill the baby when he's still in the uterus or when he was born is just the same... it's called murder. but ofcourse the law will speak in a different way.

Just think that the abortion was done becoz of threatening the mother's life, will it be called killing???
How about Euthanasia???

JellyBaby106

do you eat eggs? its the same thing sweetie.

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