I've never heard anyone who wanted their child refer to them as a "fetus." It's not like people go around saying "Oh when is your fetus due?" or "Is your fetus a boy or a girl?"
I think people made up that word so they could justify their actions of killing a human. They are removing humanity from the word "baby" by changing it to "fetus", so they think they aren't really killing a "baby" when, in reality, they are.
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So, there's no such thing as a fetus? Is there no such thing as an embryo, either? What about a placenta, is that really just "the afterbirth"?
glyptodon beat me to it, but I'm gonna post this anyway just for the hell of it...
Fetus - Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, act of bearing young, offspring; akin to Latin fetus newly delivered, fruitful.
Guess that means them damned Romans made the word up so they could remove the humanity from the word baby, which they didn't have.
JoJo! needs to crack open a book other than the Wholly Babble. Or at least learn to use an online dictionary.
Engineering requires a certain level of logical thought (same with architecture).
Doctor-ing requires a certain level of concentration (especially in surgeons).
dollfucker, I think we'll be safe. That is, of course, if they don't lower the requirements for graduation from medical school.
I agree, up to a point. People do seem to think calling it a fetus makes it less human. I see little difference between a heavily (for lack of better word)
developed fetus and a baby. But when a fetus is made up of six cells, don't kid yourself, it isn't a baby.
Outside the womb, Baby. Inside the womb, Fetus.
What's hard about that, You don't have any issues with Infant, Toddler, or Child because you can't really cover your agenda there
So the Word Redefinition Project now extends to other languages, some of which, I bet JoJo has never heard of, and wouldn't believe you if you told her about them.
@ dollfucker
The thought that this people will someday be our engineers architech and doctors
That won't happen. What scares me, though, is that these jerks will be flipping our burgers; dropping them on the floor, spitting in them, and peeing in the soup.
And reproducing.
Fetus is the scientific word for a gestating future organism, in this case human organism, between weeks 9 and 38 of pregnancy. Before that, it's called an embryo, after that it's an infant.
Most aborted embryos/fetuses are spontaneous abortions, also known as miscarriages. A majority of the non-spontaneously-aborted fetuses are born, a minority are "actively" aborted. But they are all called fetuses. Why create a special word for all gestating organisms, when just a small amount of them are "actively" aborted?
Fetus and baby has about the same amount of humanity, they are just in two different languages.
People who have an abortion know what they are doing; they are removing an organism that has the potential of becoming a human being in about 7-8 months.
Confused?
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