re: #272 Targetpractice

I was about to say that we as Americans have spent years being conditioned by the “pro-life” crowd to assume that abortions involve fully-formed fetuses, when in reality the majority of abortions occur so shortly into the pregnancy that the fetus would be a glob of cells indistinguishable from most hospital waste. Same with miscarriages, the greatest chance for having one is early in the pregnancy, with the odds decreasing past week 14.

Exactly. And the extremists keep pushing that “personhood moment” up to and even before conception now in some places.
I’ve experienced at least half a dozen miscarriages/spontaneous abortions. Very sad events, yes, but there was NO BABY. Just a lot of blood and goop.