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If the choicers want to call their unborn children ‘fetuses’ then we should let them. As long as, after they have a child, they call the child a ‘neonate.’

Why?

Fetus is a scientific term for an unborn child. Neonate is the scientific term for a born child.

Either they comply to this (it IS after all politically correct) or they call it a child. And if they do that, they have to call it a child before it’s born as well.
 
I have never even heard of the neonate term before…but you make a very good point!!! they should try to be a little more consistent.
 
The word neonate is used for babies from birth to 1 month old.
 
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JimG:
I guess that makes me a paleonate.
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martino:
I have never even heard of the neonate term before…but you make a very good point!!! they should try to be a little more consistent.
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Ever heard the term “neonatal”? It’s the term generally applied to newborn healthcare, as in “neonatal medicine”. 😃

It’s related to the term “nativity” as well, IIRC, which we should all be familiar with this time of year, and “neo” means new. Neonate literally means “new born” 🙂

Peace and God bless!
 
After one month, I think they’re called infants.

I use the terms fetus and neonate on a regular basis, does that mean I get to be pro-choice? 😛

Seriously, though, the more extreme pro-choice folks don’t have much respect for human life outside of the womb, either. I doubt they’d object to using the word neonate in normal conversation, and, given half a chance, I doubt they’d object to treating neonates in the same way they treat fetuses. We can already see how they treat the elderly. If you want a picture of the U.S.'s near future, look at the Netherlands.
 
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and after 1 month?
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Infant. But I prefer to call them a baby. When I had my son, I certainly didn’t say, Oh, my fetus or my neonate, I said, my baby. So much easier.
 
Yup- birth to one month is a neonate, one month to one year is an infant, then toddler. I guess one thing that’s particularly interesting for me (nursing student) is premature infants. I’ve cared for 22 and 24 week babies (very, very premature) and we’re fighting for their lives- tubes in, vents, warmed beds, reminders to breathe- and then to listen to some pro-abortion people saying how they believe that it should be legal throughout all 9 months or things like that. I wouldn’t want them working in the NICU with my child.

We actually got into the discussion in my ethics class about human vs. person and what makes a person. I was pretty disturbed to see the number of people (not the majority, though) that base personhood on relationships rather than dignity of the human person and the presence of a soul.
 
So…is this suppose to be like…an argument against pro-choicers? Really, I don’t see any point. They call a baby before birth a fetus. Okay, no problem. They call it a baby. Okay, no problem. I can’t even comprehend how anyone could care if they call a baby after birth a neonite or a baby if they called it a fetus before hand.
 
I read somewhere that some ‘prochoicers’ are trying to avoid the word foetus because it has an ‘emotional’ connotation. Seems you can change the name but the image remains.

We had a couple who had been given the remains of their aborted baby to take home (they offer that option here in NZ). Eventually they contacted a crisis pregnancy organisation asking for assistance. The tiny baby was buried in the CPC garden.

Sometime later a worker was there late one evening when a car pulled into the driveway. The lights of the car remained on and the worker wondered if it was the pro-abortion vandals who had caused damage previously.

Leaning out an upper window, she asked who was there. It was the young couple whose baby had been buried. When asked why they were there, they said “We’ve come to visit our foetus.”

Their hearts recognised the truth even though their language reflected what they had been told by the abortion clinic.
 
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I read somewhere that some ‘prochoicers’ are trying to avoid the word foetus because it has an ‘emotional’ connotation. Seems you can change the name but the image remains.

We had a couple who had been given the remains of their aborted baby to take home (they offer that option here in NZ). Eventually they contacted a crisis pregnancy organisation asking for assistance. The tiny baby was buried in the CPC garden.

Sometime later a worker was there late one evening when a car pulled into the driveway. The lights of the car remained on and the worker wondered if it was the pro-abortion vandals who had caused damage previously.

Leaning out an upper window, she asked who was there. It was the young couple whose baby had been buried. When asked why they were there, they said “We’ve come to visit our foetus.”

Their hearts recognised the truth even though their language reflected what they had been told by the abortion clinic.
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Wow! That is a powerful story. Do you know the couple? Do they regret their decision to abort the child?

So sad…Lord forgive us for we know not what we do…
 
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EsclavoDeCristo:
So sad…Lord forgive us for we know not what we do…
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How true this is. I find it immensely sad and angering that many extreme pro-choice advocates actually object to doctors showing pictures of fetuses and explaining fetal development to patients considering abortion. Obtaining informed consent before performing a medical procedure is required by federal law. To suggest that a doctor should explain a person’s cancer to them before obtaining their consent to remove it, but should not explain a person’s child to them… it’s preposterous. People who make a decision like this based on a lack of information from their doctor suffer terrible psychological harm when they get that infomation from another source after they’ve already had an abortion.
 
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EsclavoDeCristo:
Wow! That is a powerful story. Do you know the couple? Do they regret their decision to abort the child?

So sad…Lord forgive us for we know not what we do…
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The fact that they had developed a habit of driving to the burial site of their baby at night, to just park there and grieve, would indicate they did indeed regret their decision, at some level, even if they did not consciously realise it.
 
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