02-02-2017, 02:20 PM
(02-02-2017, 01:30 PM)F.U. Wrote: I haven't kept up with this discussion HotD, thanks for the summery.
Partial birth is a topic I have given little thought to.
Knowing that you can hear a heartbeat at just 6-8 weeks makes me feel different as to when the term late term is applied. If it has a heartbeat it is alive in my opinion.
You brought up late-term abortion, which encompasses partial-birth abortion.
Anyway, at the point when the fetus registers a heartbeat, the fetus is developing and on life-support, without the capacity to feel pain.
The choice to continue life-support or not should be up to the mother who's providing it, in my opinion.
But, I understand that you see terminating a pregnancy that early on as murder.