tiny babies

blackribbon said:

I worked in the NICU today. I loved it. However, I am having a real hard time knowing that babies can be legally aborted when they are older than all my patients were at birth. One of my patients was born at 23 weeks, one at 27 weeks, and the third was born at 24 weeks.

There was a little 2lb little boy who was just born at 24 weeks holding his own. The idea that Dr Goswell could deliver and kill babies who were 28 weeks old, makes me sick. How could you hold such a perfect little human and not recognizes its humanity.

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blackribbon said:

I worked in the NICU today. I loved it. However, I am having a real hard time knowing that babies can be legally aborted when they are older than all my patients were at birth. One of my patients was born at 23 weeks, one at 27 weeks, and the third was born at 24 weeks.

There was a little 2lb little boy who was just born at 24 weeks holding his own. The idea that Dr Goswell could deliver and kill babies who were 28 weeks old, makes me sick. How could you hold such a perfect little human and not recognizes its humanity.

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blackribbon said:

I think as a society we make it hard for women to put up babies for adoption. The "honor" is in keeping it because that means you are a "good" mother and you "love" your baby. Instead of recognizing that often those who put their babies up are "lovingly" recognizing that they can't give their babies the life that they deserve.

I hate the word "fetus"...that is a baby that is still a "throw away" because it hasn't gained the status of "human being" yet. As a healthcare worker, we have to treat a pregnant woman as "two patients" while the Pro-choice people still call that little patient a "choice" that they should be allowed to throw away.

The problem with 1st term is quite a few women don't know they are pregnant yet. But by eight weeks when it is changed from an embryo to a fetus, a baby has already developed all its organs...the rest of the time is spent fine tuning and growing. I say it is human at conception...the "choice" is made at the time that two people get naked.

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