re: #275 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

You probably know more about this than I do, but the word “fetus” in the abortion debate bugs the hell out of me. Aren’t most abortions performed at the embryonic stage of development, before 12 weeks? The whole referral to “the fetus” all the time is a subtle (or not) attempt to get people to picture a fully formed baby being ripped to pieces when that isn’t the case. We have to stop with that terminology as much as we can unless it applies. I know it seems like a small thing, but with the whole PP video mess, it’s been driven home, to me at least, how this one thing makes the whole late term abortions being done in clinics thing seem more real to people who don’t understand basic biology.

I wonder if there are actual numbers on the number of abortions done in a year in the US broken down into when they occurred in the pregnancy. Once you get past a certain number of weeks (14? I can’t remember), the procedure can’t be done in a clinic setting anyway. Which makes what these right to life asshats are doing even more deceptive, if that’s possible.