Frank T wrote:
1. A fetus is not a baby.
2. If you can't tell the difference, perhaps you should educate yourself, or better yet, mind your own fkn business.
Excuse me.....how many "fetuses" have you carried inside your body? How many "fetuses" have you created with the stuff of your body? Maybe you should listen to those of us that know of what we speak.
This is the second time I've posted this but it's obvious that you missed it on the first go around.
Yes, I have known a fetus. In fact I’ve had a close relationship with three of them. For twenty-seven months I carried them within my own body. I heard their heart beats and felt their first fluttery movements. I endured the backaches that came from the burden of their weight and laughed at the resulting clumsiness. Eventually I could see their tiny pokes and kicks through the stretched skin of my abdomen.
Yes, I knew my sons before they were born. I knew their names before they saw their first sun rise. I had silly one-way conversations with them before their first cry. I made promises that no mere mortal could possible keep. I prayed for their well being. Yes, I knew my sons before they were born. How can you not when that tiny person is nestled inches from your own heart?
Fetus, baby, child, infant, neonate……what’s in a name? Nothing. I have known, and continue to know the smiles and respect and love of all my sons. You cannot diminish that with words or the pretense that at sometime in their life they were less than human.
I was blessed to have been the vessel that protected my sons as they struggled toward their first breath. I was blessed to have known the experience of giving birth. There is nothing you can say, you have no words that can ever take that from me. Try as you might, you do not have the power to tarnish what I have known.
As you struggle to find words to diminish the value of an unborn life might I suggest you try this one on for size: Miracle.