The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.
Quotes about fetus (14 Quotes)
We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
Writing is like carrying a fetus.
Last night the state police in Middlesex received a tip that possibly a baby or infant was buried there, ... We proceeded to search the area around the house as well as contact and conduct interviews with the people who lived in the house. The information they provided corroborated what we found, which was the remains of a fetus the family buried here.
A partial-birth abortion is a surgical procedure during which the unborn fetus is partially delivered, an intrauterine cranial decompression is performed ... and then the dead fetus is delivered.
A woman who intentionally destroys a fetus is guilty of murder. And we do not even talk about the fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed.
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.
And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.
While I think there is more work to be done on Will's statement that 'It is bad to kill a fetus,' he does a service by putting it out there so boldly. There are many problems with the word 'bad' and how it is heard. A more nuanced way of saying this is that the act of abortion is not a moral good. Things that are not moral goods are not necessarily immoral or bad. And they may, as is the case with abortion, be often justifiable and almost always have positive outcomes.
Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
But then, Wagner added, the adolescent is also far more developed than the newborn and yet society values both lives equally. The burden for pro-choice advocates, therefore, is to demonstrate that the change a human undergoes as she develops from a fetus to a newborn is so different from all future developments that it alters her ontological status entirely. They must also show that the value of a human being depends on the characteristics that he or she acquires rather than on the kind of thing that it is.
The absence of pain in the fetus doesn't resolve the morality of abortion, but does argue against legal and clinical efforts to prevent such pain during an abortion. A mandate to provide pain relief before an abortion may expose women to inappropriate interventions, risks and distress.