The Bible clearly and undeniably registers it becoming a human being once it takes “the breath of life“.
I tend to consider it a baby as the placenta disengages from the uterine wall. Perhaps your survey would have ‘cutting of the umbilical cord’ as it’s equivalent.
As long as it exists as a parasitic life, getting nutrients and oxygen from the uterus, then it is a fetus.
This of course has nothing to do with abortion.
When considering the last possible date to get an abortion, then there are many many variables to consider between the mom and her doctor and no one else; particularly not some intrusive government agency controlling every aspect of peoples’ lives, shoving a single religion’s current political model down everyone’s throat, as if the government’s religion were somehow better than your own.
As far as the fetus versus baby thing, you’re trying to drive at, its a matter of “when is it viable”?
It is the woman’s uterus, and she can decide whether she wants it to be emptied of any parasitic lifeforms or not.
When the fetus becomes “viable”, that means that if you extract it from her uterus, it will still live on its own: by being able to breathe air. (Kind of Biblical, yeah?)
A major determinant of whether it will survive or not is a chemical in the airspace of the lungs that acts as a surfactant. Essentially a surfactant allows the microscopically small air spaces to remain open when air is breathed in and out, rather than collapsing and sticking together like a wet plastic bag will. This surfactant is formed in the fetal lungs as early 24 weeks into gestation, but not enough to keep them breathing outside air until at least 32 weeks.
One of the reasons that babies who were born prematurely as little as 22 weeks of gestation can survive is that human science and medicine have created artificial surfactant, which can be blown down into the premature infants lungs to keep them operational. The survival rate for such preemies is still extremely bad, and it cost thousands of dollars per night to keep them alive in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Then, of course, there are all the genetic abnormalities most of which get aborted by God in the first trimester. But often times, especially without universal healthcare, the pregnant women cannot afford to seek out appropriate care, let alone full diagnostic testing on the fetus, until late in the pregnancy. In these situations, the parasitic fetus, clearly has lethal defects that would cause it to die as soon as it emerged from the uterus. Or worse, be born and die in a few days.
These account for the vast majority of the late term abortions beyond 20 weeks gestation. But an intrusive and controlling theocratic government doesn’t care about reality, and forces entire families to suffer through the horrors that “God has wrought”.
Let us all now take a moment and thank the Lord God who is undeniably the most prolific abortion performing doctor for all species throughout all time, and particularly for aborting the millions of fetuses each and every year that would’ve been forced to endure horrific and short life-spans, dying in the uterus or dying gasping and filled with pain in their parents‘ arms, in the first hours or days of life.
We thank God the abortionist for his mercy, and not allowing human governments to destroy families with their insane crime on a timeline bull****.
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