No foetal pain before 24 weeks so OK to abort....?

[StableButDeluded]

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10403496.stm

I'm a bit about this. Just because they supposedly can't feel pain still doesn't necessarily make it OK. It just doesn't sit right with me that doctors can be aborting a baby of 24 weeks in one part of a hospital and saving the life of another baby that was born at 24 weeks in another.

I still think that with all the medical advances that now enable premature babies of this age to survive, the abortion time limit should be lowered, apart from in exceptional circumstances. Pain or no pain.

very pleased for you DF, must be a HUGE weight off your mind

I can appreciate that we all have different views and that some will disagree with abortion outright, or after 12 weeks etc etc. But I cant understand those who are soooo 'prolife' saying its ok to abort if the baby is disabled..

All the arguements for pro life i.e. its a life, you shouldnt play god, you shouldnt have got pregnant in the first place if you cant handle it etc are still valid for a disabled child, no?

And even (although I cringe as I say this) a child conceived by rape.. is still a life, its not the childs fault...

Im not being rude, I am 100% behind abortions and have had one myself (for the simple reason that it was an inconvenient time for me to have a baby - twins, as it turned out) I was carrying a downs baby I honestly cant say if I would keep it or not but I am curious as to the thinking behind it being wrong to abort a 'normal' baby but not a disabled one...

Came back to see if Df had results - glad you got good news and good luck with the rest of it (healthy pregnancy, safe/simple birth, that kind of thing)

(baby with downs)

Are you adding downs syndrome to my list of good wishes there 2shoes? I know that a downs child can be a blessing but I wouldn't say it would be necessarily better than the alternative, whereas I was wishing for unambiguously positive things.

no of course not just a correction of the term.

Sorry, I got confused, couldn't see exactly what you were referring to but I've spotted it now.

So it's 'baby with x' not 'x baby' because they are a baby first and foremost. To take a trivial example 'baby with ginger hair' vs 'ginger baby' because it is something they have but is not everything they are.

thats it, not a big thing on a thread which has such sad post on it, but I automatically
correct

Fair enough 2shoes. I used to work with a woman with a baby with downs and she says 'downs baby' its never occured to me that it was incorrect. Apologies if I offended.