Just so as everyone knows, what @manip-loki said up there is a lie. Abortion doesn’t involve tearing the fetus to pieces or burning it to death by acid and the only reason that people like this tell you that is so they can try to emotionally manipulate you into agreeing with them.
1 - A fetus without a brain cannot feel pain
You heard me. The cannot feel pain. You have to have a brain in order to feel pain because the brain is how we interpret nerve signals. Without it, there’s no functioning central nervous system to interpret those pain signals. The nerves are there, but there’s nothing for them to report home to. Hence, no pain.
2 - Abortion doesn’t involve tearing a fetus apart
What they’re referring to here is the way that a dilation and evacuation abortion is performed, only they’re describing it in as disgusting a way as possible to make you react.
In reality, what happens in a dilation and evacuation abortion is that the very first thing a doctor does is to use a small tool to remove whatever internal organs the fetus has developed. The fetus dies instantly and without pain. And keep in mind, we’re talking about a procedure that’s only performed on fetuses that are already non-viable and can’t continue to live anyway.
The part that anti-choicers never want to tell you is that they’d like to see this fetus develop to the point where it might be able to feel pain and discomfort and then see it born and live for how many ever hours it can, even though it could suffer terribly for that time, for the sake of their twisted sense of morality.
3 - Abortion doesn’t involve burning a fetus to death with acid
That’s straight up fiction and it’s bullshit to boot. What they’re talking about is a rarely used form of late term abortion called saline amniocentesis, which you can read about on wikipedia as ‘instillation abortion’. It doesn’t burn the fetus at all. It involves injecting a saline solution (that’s fucking salt, btw) or some other compounds into the amniotic sac where it irritates the tissues of the uterus and provokes contractions.
I think the origin of this lie is that salt (NaCl), when mixed with water (H2O), creates tiny amounts of NaOH (sodium hydroxide, a base) and HCL (hydrochloric acid) in addition to creating a dissolved solution of salt water. It creates acid and base in very small amounts due to the way that the salt continually interacts with the water, most of it saying dissolved in solution but the occasional salt molecule breaking apart to form an acid and a base with the water, only for the acid and base to interact with each other and turn right back into salt and water.
Here’s where it gets really shitty, in my opinion. The pain caused by saline amniocentesis? It’s felt by the person carrying the fetus because inducing uterine contractions is anywhere from really uncomfortable to up to ‘hella painful’ and this lie completely ignores it. The fetus doesn’t feel that pain because the salt or other compound isn’t doing anything to damage the fetus during the process.
4 - Fetus doesn’t mean baby
A baby is an infant human who has been born. A fetus is a stage of fetal development, prior to being born.
5 - Forcing a parent to carry a non-viable fetus to term is cruel and inhumane
Not only does it place the parent at undue risk, it’s basically forcing someone to live with the torturous knowledge that their child isn’t going to be born and isn’t going to grow up.
Let me translate that for you.
They’re saying that pregnant people shouldn’t be allowed to grieve unless they’re grieving properly. Remember, the arguments that anti-choicers like @manip-loki are raising essentially argue that if you abort a fetus you’re evil and should suffer but if you carry that non-viable fetus to term and suffer through weeks of knowing your child will never grow up then you’ll get a cookie for being a good parent who ‘grieved correctly’.
6 - No, doctors are not wrong all the time about a fetus
When a child is born without large portions of the brain, that’s a rare condition known as anencephaly. Children with anencephaly never develop a mind, are unaware of their surroundings, and cannot feel pain. Basically, they can breathe and react to some really primitive stimuli and that’s it.
People who have only half a brain are people who have undergone a medical procedure called a hemispherectomy, in which one of their hemispheres is removed, usually to help deal with a condition that causes severe seizures or other issues that result in a greatly diminished quality of life. It doesn’t have anything to do with a fetus and I don’t even think you can perform a hemispherectomy on a fetus.
If nothing else, consider this:
If anti-choicers had any leg to stand on they wouldn’t have to lie so egregiously about the nature of abortion in order to try to win their arguments. Stay skeptical, make people prove their assertions, don’t take their bullshit at face value.
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