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dhritzkiv

You probably meant embryo or fetus, but to answer the 40 week part of your question:

> The “abortion pill” is actually 5 pills, taken one or two days apart.

It's the 4th or so heading on the linked site.

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No I meant baby. And I meant life.

It's not a weird premise. You rather save the life of a fetus than save the life of an 18 month old born to a mother that can't support that child. You'd rather that woman have that child, be backed into a corner where that child then becomes a ward of the state and that child be abused by it's foster family, resulting in either death at which point it was a wash or that child grows up to be part of the cycle of abuse.

Or maybe that mother keeps the child but due to the lack of support (do those mega churches need to be so mega) she ends up in a less than ideal part of town and can't fully keep an eye on that child and it joins a gang where it kills a few people before meeting its own demise. Damn, now that one loss of life due to abortion is a loss of 4 lives.

Or maybe that child does make it through life but never really gets out of the poverty cycle that was started because its mother had no control over her body. It never really lives the life it wants. It doesn't feel the love of god, it just feels forsaken until its last breath. But I guess that's ok because it was still here and that's all that matters.

So much love.

There is a long line of young families who want to adopt and would love that child. I am too familiar w the abuses of foster care. I need to be the voice of those who cant defend themselves. There is one place a child should feel most safe … in the womb of its mother.

Which takes me back to my original question, when does that caring stop? As there are far more children who weren't taken care of post birth than there were aborted.

Many of my personal friends have adopted children from all over the world. Saved them from horrid lives and even death. It hurts me to think of any child that is abused. Born or unborn. It there is a way to fight what you speak of I would gladly join hands w you and fight it.

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