As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception.
One of the thoughtful questions we could be asking is, "Have you ever gone to Google and typed in 20 week baby or 20 week fetus? Try it and click on the images." Suddenly your friend will see what a 20-week-old baby looks like in the womb. That image is clearly a unique life.
So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.
So… um… what’s the, er, date? You know, the due date for the little monster.
He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.
There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.
It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.
I was born nine months premature.
When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.
Nausea is a normal but unpleasant effect of pregnancy and a really good sign that it is going well. Women who experience nausea in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.
I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle or later part of the second trimester, in a way that you feel about it in that you grow attached.
