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Periodic reminder that "abort", meaning to halt a process, is a transitive verb, which is to say that it takes a direct object; and that when one is discussing a person having an abortion, the direct object of the verb "abort" is THE PREGNANCY.
Language is very important.
Language is very important.
You cannot "abort a baby". You cannot, in fact, even "abort a fetus" or "abort an embryo", because those things are not processes. THE OBJECT OF THE VERB "ABORT" IS "PREGNANCY". THE POINT OF AN ABORTION IS TO HALT A PREGNANCY.
"Do you support people ending their pregnancies at 39 weeks, ADRIENNE????" I mean, yes, i support abortion on-demand and without apology; but also, if someone wants to abort a pregnancy at 39 weeks and the fetus is healthy and viable, we call that process "a C-section".
Also the actual medical name for what people colloquially call a "miscarriage" is actually "spontaneous abortion". That means your pregnancy suddenly stopped without intervention.
Point out to the anti-choicers that the source of most abortions is God, and they get reall mad.
Point out to the anti-choicers that the source of most abortions is God, and they get reall mad.
People concede too much framing to anti-choicers. Nobody is "aborting babies". Some people are aborting their pregnancies, and one effect of that process is a nonviable fetus.
The reason for that is because the fetus is literally BUILDING itself a body out of the pregnant person's resources, a sort of reverse Frankenstein maneuver. THERE IS NO "BABY" without a pregnant person donating tissue & organs for months while it assembles itself from scratch.
Anti-choicers make much out of the fact that certain abortion procedures damage the fetus while removing it, but even if they could magically teleport the intact fetus outside of the womb IT WOULD STILL DIE, because it isn't really ALIVE yet to begin with.
A uterus is not a hotel and a fetus is not a homunculus. There is no miniature human being in there just hanging out until it's big enough to emerge; there's a gradually-more-human-ish thing that is EATING ITS PARENT FROM INSIDE in order to come fully to life.
Here's a really good article about this shit. https://aeon.co/essays/why-pregnancy-is-a-biological-war-between-mother-and-baby
