Clockwise Cat Strikes Back

Abortions, Adoptions, Abominations
and the Right To Fucking Choose (Rant)
By Alison Ross
It's more humane to abort a fetus than to carry a pregnancy to term and adopt the baby
out.
Of course, that's fiery language for some people. That's because some people cannot wrap
their befuddled brains around the stupidly obvious fact that a fetus and a baby are not the
same.
A fetus by definition is an unformed human - it is in limbo between being embryo and
human. But some people are dumb as dirt, and equate a mass of cells and tissue with a
fully formed baby. That's like saying the seeds planted to grow a tree are tantamount to
being an actual mature tree. Or some aggravating analogy like that.
The point is, a fetus is incapable of functioning on its own, outside of the mother's womb,
which is why it deserves a different treatment that what we would extend to an actual
baby. A fetus may have organs, but they are still in their nascent development and not
necessarily situated correctly yet. And a fetus has no self-awareness, while a baby does.
A fetus, in short, is not a sentient being. There is some debate over this, and that's all fine
and well, but a fetus most patently does not have transcendent nature like a baby does. It
inhabits a womb and cannot subsist external to that womb. It is an inextricable part of the