{"id":77906,"date":"2015-10-25T09:16:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T14:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=77906"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:22:40","slug":"factchecking-the-the-claim-that-fetuses-arent-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/factchecking-the-the-claim-that-fetuses-arent-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact checking the claim that &#8220;fetuses aren\u2019t people&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>On October 22, Live Action published <a href=\"\/news\/article-claiming-fetuses-arent-people-reveals-pro-choice-denial-poor-reasoning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a response<\/a> to RH Reality Check\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/rhrealitycheck.org\/article\/2015\/10\/19\/day-learned-aborted-fetuses-arent-people\/\">The Day I Learned Aborted Fetuses Aren\u2019t People,\u201d<\/a> an article in which Amy Littlefield attempts (with no real evidence given) to convince us that fetuses, i.e. preborn children, are not people. Are the things she says about aborted babies correct?<\/p>\n<p>Littlefield freely admits she is a former clinic worker. This means she has seen the bodies of aborted babies. She must know exactly what preborn babies look like at each stage of development. However, in the article, she appears\u00a0to mislead the reader in a way that seems deliberate.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Littlefield says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sometimes patients would ask me about their embryo or fetus. Would it feel pain? No, I would assure them. How big was it? For the vast majority of patients, who were in the first trimester of pregnancy, the answer was: tiny. More than\u00a090 percent\u00a0of abortions occur at or before 13 weeks of pregnancy, when the embryo or fetus ranges from little more than a bundle of cells to no more than a\u00a0few inches long. But some patients I saw were much further along. Their questions were more difficult to answer. Their fetuses looked more like babies, even though they were still not viable outside the womb\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Later in the article, Littlefield says she saw an aborted baby at 22 weeks. At this stage, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrlc.org\/abortion\/fetalpain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good evidence the baby can feel pain.<\/a> \u00a0But I\u2019d like to focus on her descriptions of earlier preborn children.<\/p>\n<p>Littlefield says that that 90% of abortions take place in the first trimester. The actual number, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/pubs\/fb_induced_abortion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> is 89%<\/a>.\u00a0 She says that these first trimester abortions remove \u201ca bundle of cells\u201d which is \u201cno more than a few inches long.\u201d Littlefield only admits that \u201cfetuses look like babies\u201d when they are \u201cmuch further along.\u201d\u00a0 Although Littlefield is correct in saying that the preborn baby in the first trimester is still small, her choice of words implies that the first trimester preborn child is not very developed and certainly doesn\u2019t look like a baby. As a matter of fact, the fetus begins to resemble a baby far earlier in pregnancy then Littlefield implies.<\/p>\n<p>From The Endowment for Human Development, a scientific site on fetal development that is not affiliated with the pro-life movement, we see a 3-D sonogram of a preborn baby at 10 \u00bd weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/left-knee-and-hip-flexion.jpg\" alt=\"left-knee-and-hip-flexion\" width=\"491\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/left-knee-and-hip-flexion.jpg 491w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/left-knee-and-hip-flexion-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At this time, the baby not only has arms, legs, fingers, and toes, a face, a beating heart, (here is a video of a preborn baby\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehd.org\/movies.php?mov_id=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heart beating at 4 \u00bd weeks<\/a>) and a brain that produces<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehd.org\/movies.php?mov_id=33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0brain waves<\/a>, he has every organ that he \u00a0will be born with. In fact, if the baby is a girl, she has her <em>own<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehd.org\/movies.php?mov_id=220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ovaries <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehd.org\/movies.php?mov_id=223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">womb.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0preborn baby also has her\u00a0own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehd.org\/movies.php?mov_id=228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unique fingerprints.<\/a> These exact\u00a0fingerprints have never existed before in all of human history\u00a0and will never exist again. They identify the child as a unique\u00a0human being, and \u00a0they\u00a0can\u00a0be used\u00a0to identify her throughout her entire\u00a0life outside the womb.<\/p>\n<p>This picture of an 11-week-old preborn baby shows every detail in the hands and fingers. You can see joints and fingernails.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/joints-of-the-fingers-.jpg\" alt=\"joints-of-the-fingers-\" width=\"491\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/joints-of-the-fingers-.jpg 491w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/joints-of-the-fingers--300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is far from \u201ca bunch of cells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the article, Littlefield says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Only about\u00a01 percent\u00a0of abortions take place at or after 21 weeks\u2014and these are the abortions the pro-choice movement is most reluctant to talk about. Why? Because the fetuses look more like babies than the bundles of blood and tissue that constitute the vast majority of abortions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bundles of blood and tissue? Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n<p>First let\u2019s look at a chart from the Alan Guttmacher Institute which shows when abortions are performed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WhenWomenHaveAbortions-Graph.png\" alt=\"WhenWomenHaveAbortions-Graph\" width=\"520\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WhenWomenHaveAbortions-Graph.png 520w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WhenWomenHaveAbortions-Graph-300x239.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2010 \u00a0chart gives the most recent calculations available. Later figures have not been released.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, 33% of all abortions take place before seven weeks. These represent only a third of all abortions. Almost 30% are done at 7 to 8 weeks, and 25.7% are done at 9 to 10.<\/p>\n<p>The calculations here are tricky, so bear with me.<\/p>\n<p>The life of a preborn baby begins when an egg cell is released by the woman&#8217;s body (ovulation) at about 14 days\u00a0into her cycle (or two weeks after her last period), and is fertilized by a male sperm. \u00a0Counting from this time, the time of ovulation, we get the age of the baby. Since fetal age, and not the time since a woman&#8217;s last period, is the most logical way to measure how old a preborn baby is (it doesn\u2019t make sense to start counting fetal age 2 weeks before the fetus even exists) pro-lifers usually use this measurement.<\/p>\n<p>But the graph above specifies that the numbers in the chart are calculated by weeks <em>since the last period<\/em>. This \u00a0measurement uses the end of a woman\u2019s last period to calculate length of pregnancy, so this would account for a two-week difference\u00a0in the numbers on the chart and the age of the baby.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, a woman who is 8\u00a0weeks pregnant (by the chart) is carrying a 6 week old preborn baby (6 weeks since conception). \u00a0A woman at 9 weeks of pregnancy (by the chart) would be carrying a 7 week old baby. And on and on like that.<\/p>\n<p>We see by the chart that 55% \u00a0of all abortions abortions take place between\u00a07 and 12 weeks. \u00a07 to 12 weeks on the chart means <strong>5 to 10<\/strong> <strong>weeks\u00a0fetal age. \u00a0<\/strong>The pictures below are labeled by <strong>fetal age.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This famous picture of a preborn baby removed intact during ectopic pregnancy surgery is labeled as 6-6 \u00bd weeks fetal age.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/6-w-best.jpg\" alt=\"6 w best\" width=\"543\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/6-w-best.jpg 543w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/6-w-best-287x300.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below: Fetal age 7 weeks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/7wkbaby.jpg\" alt=\"7wkbaby\" width=\"248\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/7wkbaby.jpg 248w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/7wkbaby-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below: Fetal age 8 weeks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/8weekbluebackground.jpg\" alt=\"8weekbluebackground\" width=\"327\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/8weekbluebackground.jpg 327w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/8weekbluebackground-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below: Fetal age 10 weeks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ehd-10.jpg\" alt=\"ehd-10\" width=\"491\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ehd-10.jpg 491w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ehd-10-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems that a\u00a0large number of aborted children\u00a0look far more like babies\u00a0than &#8220;tissue and blood.&#8221;\u00a0So\u00a0we can see that Littlefield is being deceitful.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, abortion is wrong regardless of what the baby looks like. A preborn baby is a developing human life whether she looks human or not. On a philosophical level, a developing human at any stage is far more important and precious than \u201cblood and tissue.&#8221;, which is a dehumanizing way to describe a developing baby at any stage. Not only do Littlefield\u2019s words show a shocking lack of respect for human life in the womb (not surprising considering her conclusions in the article), they are not even truthful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 22, Live Action published a response to RH Reality Check\u2019s \u201cThe Day I Learned Aborted Fetuses Aren\u2019t People,\u201d an article in which Amy Littlefield attempts (with no real evidence given) to convince us that fetuses, i.e. preborn children, are not people. Are the things she says about aborted babies correct? Littlefield freely admits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":71492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,20722],"tags":[4759,5693,5804,4519,1106,3196,713,4727,35,566],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fact checking the claim that &quot;fetuses aren\u2019t people&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Is it intellectually honest to look at a human fetus and claim it is not a person? 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