Stages Of Pregnancy Week By Week Fetal Development

Frequently Asked Questions

1. QUESTION:
   why do pro-life ppl want to make pregnancy a punishment against the legal rights of women?
   " You shouldn't...Lafonda might be more careful if she wasn't guaranteed a welfare check for being irresponsible. Perhaps if Lafonda can't afford a child, she shouldn't get pregnant...and if she does anyway, perhaps she *' SHOULD BE FORCE'* to be responsible for her actions by carrying it and giving it up for adoption. She wants to engage in adult activities, she should be held responsible as an adult as well...
   And yes, there are lots of adoptive parents out there, regardless of what abortion supporters want you to believe"

   http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApOhcEmKnLGGSsz_G.oNdTsjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20110215151913AAJ02bK

   abortion is civil and constitutional right supported by the US' constitutional amendments that make up the right to privacy, the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, and the 13th amendment.
   http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightofprivacy.html
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause

   no, human being has a right to life using another human being's body or organs by FORCE to keep them alive...that's why are not force to donate your kidney; ABORTION AS A WHOLE HAS NEVER BEEN ILLEGAL IN AMERICA'S HISTORY.

   why can't these people accept that their non-legal and unconstitutional moral relativism about another citizen's body will never BE law?

   why can't they realize that their moral relativism is fascist against US' constitutional rights?

   where in their minds, they think they have to power to force childbirth and adoption of women who want to abort?

   they want to use force to keep a unwanted fetus alive inside a financially poor woman's body at her civil and constitutional rights but they, themselves don't want to take care of the unwanted child for 18 years or ADOPT, either ...while complaining about welfare.

   if you should adoption, feel free to adopt one of the millions of parentless children available all over the world.

   they even think abortion is murder, when it's legally not.
   "Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being with "malice aforethought", and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter)"
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder

   they even think a fetus is actual baby or child.
   "A fetus is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate after the embryonic stage and before birth. In humans, the fetal stage of prenatal development starts at the beginning of the 11th week in gestational age, which is the 9th week after fertilization.[1][2]"
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus
   "Child (birth - puberty)"
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_development_%28biology%29

   don't even talk about the fetus suffering.
   http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-human-condition/2010/06/25/does-the-fetus-feel-pain-uk-report-says-no.html
   about faith? the bible support abortion.

   " Numbers 5:21 Or 'causes you to have a miscarrying womb' and barrenness"
   http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%205:11-31&version=NIV1984

   if you are not buying the birth-control and made a law to force me to use it, then you shouldn't complain about women not using it and their decision to abort.

   pro-life fascism: " i want control over your body and not suffer the consequences of my authority: helping the woman with her pregnancy, help raise the child for 18 years or adopt it, and i want to complain about poor women with their babies on welfare".
   the statement is from: "Pro lifers why should my taxes pay for more welfare checks every time Lafonda don't know who the baby daddy is?"

   • ANSWER:
     Because they're really not pro-life : they're anti sex anti-woman anti -freedom
     The pro-lifers are modern day Calvinists that believe that women bodies are intrinsically dirty and that unmarried sex is a sin
     What better way to show the world who the sinning women are then to make them publicly display the fruits of their sin ?
     The proof is that I have yet to see a horribly misnamed pro-lifer walk up to an obviously pregnant unmarried teenager who was pushing a 1 yo child in a stroller thru the check-out at "Walmart" and say "Honey I am just so proud of you for not choosing abortion that I'm gonna buy your groceries , and pay your next months rent and give you some cash to spend on yourself "
     What I have seen are a lot of dirty and disproving looks that are directed at the young woman in question

2. QUESTION:
   is the human fetus really a parasite?
   what i saw this on a website, is it scientifically correct?

   "they lie and say “a fetus is not a parasite because the woman and fetus are the same species”.
   “it is also possible for a symbiotic relationship to exist between two organisms of the same species.”
   http://www.answers.com/topic/symbiosis –Gale’s Science of Everyday Things:
   Symbiosis
   like an parasitic twin.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_twin
   “an animal or plant that lives in or on another (the host) from which it obtains nourishment. The host does not benefit from the association and is often harmed by it
   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parasite
   pregnancy harms women, http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/004.htm

   SO THE HUMAN FETUS IS A PARASITE BECAUSE IT FITS THE DEFINITION, DUH!

   and the human parasitic fetus is not a baby or child?
   "A fetus is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate after the embryonic stage and before birth. In humans, the fetal stage of prenatal development starts at the beginning of the 11th week in gestational age, which is the 9th week after fertilization."
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus

   "infant...however, definitions vary between birth and 3 years of age."
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant"

   "Child (birth - puberty)"
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_development_%28biology%29"

   and is this legally accurate?

   "ABORTION IS A CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT SUPPORTED BY THE RIGHTS TO PRIVACY, THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE OF 14TH AMENDMENT, AND NOW, THE 13TH AMENDMENT.

   no human has a right to life or any due process rights by the 14th amendment to use another human's body or body parts AGAINST their will, civil and constituti­onal rights.
   that's why you are not force to donate your kidney....the human fetus has no right to life AND it's not even a person to have due process rights under 14th amendment.

   http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightofprivacy.html
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T­hirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni­ted_States_Constitution

   ABORTION IS BIRTH CONTROL, and there's no reason why not to have one...expect you don't want one"
   "I don't know if you're some dumbass troll trying to get everyone riled up, but a fetus is a human growing child, your body makes things to feed and take care of it such as the placenta, lowered immune system, etc.
   If you get say, a tape worm your body doesn't try to protect it.

   Babies aren't parasites, they're babies."

   when did i say babies and children were biologically parasites? never...so troll again.

   "lowered immune system"

   yeah, parasites do hijack and attack the immune of their hosts, like a fetus does.
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_tolerance_in_pregnancy
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophoblast
   late-term abortion is not legally murder, so your non-legal opinion is irrelevant.

   Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being with "malice aforethought"
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder
   runninlo... "your attitude really only shows that you are a young simple-minded person unable to understand the complexities of the debate."

   so you want me to lie and say, " you shouldn't have an abortion--unless really, really need one"?
   so frak the truth and ignore about that abortion is a civil and constitutional right to any american who deems it necessary for whatever she chooses because of your non-legal, unconstitutional, emo-fallacy based opinion? troll harder.

   • ANSWER:
     For people claiming the thread creator is a troll. You are disregarding the technically definition of the word "parasite" and reacting based on emotion. A parasite is an organism that lives on or within another and obtains nutriment from their body. Whether you like the terminology or not, it is correct. A fetus is in fact, a parasite. Where the classifications differs from what we commonly associate this definition to is a parasite is an unwanted entity that "invades" the body, whereas a fetus is usually desirable. Coincidently, if the woman wishes to abort her pregnancy, then we default to the aforementioned.

     Some here have stated a fetus is baby, which is incorrect. You are comparing what we see on a frequent basis to a developmental organism. There are significant difference, which disassociate the two. For instance, a fetus does not have any brain capacity until the twenty fifth week of development. Such is why many pro-choice individuals argue pain cannot be felt as a chemical reaction from the brain is required to indicate such.

     Regardless of your belief about abortion. Yes, a fetus is technically a parasite.

3. QUESTION:
   can a human fetus be a parasite?
   what i saw this on a website, is it scientifically correct?

   "they lie and say “a fetus is not a parasite because the woman and fetus are the same species”.
   “it is also possible for a symbiotic relationship to exist between two organisms of the same species.”
   http://www.answers.com/topic/symbiosis –Gale’s Science of Everyday Things:
   Symbiosis
   like an parasitic twin.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_twin
   “an animal or plant that lives in or on another (the host) from which it obtains nourishment. The host does not benefit from the association and is often harmed by it
   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parasit…
   pregnancy harms women, http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/004.htm

   SO THE HUMAN FETUS IS A PARASITE BECAUSE IT FITS THE DEFINITION, DUH!

   and the human parasitic fetus is not a baby or child?
   "A fetus is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate after the embryonic stage and before birth. In humans, the fetal stage of prenatal development starts at the beginning of the 11th week in gestational age, which is the 9th week after fertilization."
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus

   "infant...however, definitions vary between birth and 3 years of age."
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant"

   "Child (birth - puberty)"
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_devel…

   and is this legally accurate?

   "ABORTION IS A CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT SUPPORTED BY THE RIGHTS TO PRIVACY, THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE OF 14TH AMENDMENT, AND NOW, THE 13TH AMENDMENT.

   no human has a right to life or any due process rights by the 14th amendment to use another human's body or body parts AGAINST their will, civil and constituti­onal rights.
   that's why you are not force to donate your kidney....the human fetus has no right to life AND it's not even a person to have due process rights under 14th amendment.

   http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ft…
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Prote…
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T­hirteenth…‡

   abortion is birth control, and there's no reason why not to have one...expect you don't one"
   "Abortion is not birth control, abstinence or contraceptives are birth control.
   How many times are you going to post this question troll?"

   you are the only troll here because abortion is birth control.

   "Birth control is an umbrella term for several techniques and methods used to prevent fertilization or to interrupt pregnancy at various stages. Birth control techniques and methods include contraception (the prevention of fertilization), contragestion (preventing the implantation of the blastocyst) and abortion (the removal or expulsion of a fetus or embryo from the uterus"

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control
   for everyone's info, i give you the different types of parasites:
   "accidental parasite:one that parasitizes an organism other than the usual host.
   facultative parasite:one that may be parasitic upon another organism but can exist independently.
   incidental parasite/accidental parasite.
   obligate parasite/obligatory parasite: one that is entirely dependent upon a host for its survival.
   periodic parasite:one that parasitizes a host for short periods.
   temporary parasite:one that lives free of its host during part of its life cycle."

   http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/parasite

   the best thing for your mind/body to do, if you have an unwanted pregnancy is to abort, and abort early in pregnancy--it doesn't have the ability to feel pain.

   ABORT AND BE FREE FROM WELFARE!

   a fetus can't feel pain.
   http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-human-condition/2010/06/25/does-the-fetus-feel-pain-uk-report-says-no.html

   • ANSWER:
     Abortion is not birth control, abstinence or contraceptives are birth control.

     How many times are you going to post this question troll?

4. QUESTION:
   the human fetus, is it a parasite?
   The human fetus, is it a parasite?
   i saw this on the Google and the links check out.

   'they lie and say “a fetus is not a parasite because the woman and fetus are the same species”.
   “it is also possible for a symbiotic relationship to exist between two organisms of the same species.”
   http://www.answers.com/topic/symbiosis –Gale’s Science of Everyday Things:
   Symbiosis
   like an parasitic twin.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_twin
   “an animal or plant that lives in or on another (the host) from which it obtains nourishment. The host does not benefit from the association and is often harmed by it
   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parasite
   pregnancy harms women, http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/004.htm

   SO THE HUMAN FETUS IS A PARASITE BECAUSE IT FITS THE DEFINITION, DUH!

   and the human parasitic fetus is not a baby or child?
   "A fetus is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate after the embryonic stage and before birth. In humans, the fetal stage of prenatal development starts at the beginning of the 11th week in gestational age, which is the 9th week after fertilization."
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus

   "infant...however, definitions vary between birth and 3 years of age."
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant"

   "Child (birth - puberty)"
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_development_%28biology%29

   is this scientifically accurate? show me with links to prove it and answer this question honesty.
   read this again, because this link say that two organisms of the species can be in a symbiotic relationship: mutualism, commensalism, or parasitic.

   “it is also possible for a symbiotic relationship to exist between two organisms of the same species.”
   http://www.answers.com/topic/symbiosis –Gale’s Science of Everyday Things:
   Symbiosis

   like an parasitic twin.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_twin --go the website, if you have no clue what it is.

   pregnancy harms women, http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/004.htm

   so is the fetus a parasite?
   PRO-LIFE PEOPLE NEED TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION AND NOT FLAG IT, BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE THE ANSWER...MIRROR THIS Q/A.

   • ANSWER:
     yes, the HUMAN fetus is biologically a parasite, just look at the symbiotic relationship during the time of it's gestation--it fits every definition of parasite:

     "an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host"
     wordnetweb princeton edu/perl/webwn

     "biology A (generally undesirable) living organism that exists by stealing the resources produced/collected by another living organism. "
     wiktionary org/wiki/parasite

     "(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) an animal or plant that lives in or on another (the host) from which it obtains nourishment. The host does not benefit from the association and is often harmed by it"
     www thefreedictionary com/parasite

     "An organism that lives in or with another organism, called the host, in parasitism, a type of association characterized by the parasite obtaining benefits from the host, such as food, and the host being injured as a result."
     medical-dictionary thefreedictionary com/parasite

     and for the people who are saying that an organism HAS to be a parasite for the rest of it's life, are scientifically wrong.

     "temporary parasite:one that lives free of its host during part of its life cycle."

     for everyone's info, i give you the different types of parasites:
     "accidental parasite:one that parasitizes an organism other than the usual host.
     facultative parasite:one that may be parasitic upon another organism but can exist independently.
     incidental parasite/accidental parasite.
     obligate parasite/obligatory parasite: one that is entirely dependent upon a host for its survival.
     periodic parasite:one that parasitizes a host for short periods.
     temporary parasite:one that lives free of its host during part of its life cycle."
     http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/parasite

     and if anyone said that a parasite can't be the same species, ask what's a parasitic twin?
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_twin
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniopagus_parasiticus

     "It is also possible for a symbiotic relationship to exist between two organisms of the same species"
     http://www.answers.com/topic/symbiosis --- Gale's Science of Everyday Things:
     Symbiosis

     and to see how pregnancy harms a woman, to go: http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/004.htm

     now i know you said, "no opinions" but i will express mine: these anti-choice or anti-abortion people are fascists, they want to force a woman to stay pregnant against her will and legal rights, they don't care about the woman and HOW she will have to suffer to give birth to an unwanted fetus and the ill-effects lasting for years AFTER pregnancy, and they will not be there to help raise the child for 18 years.

     THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT FETUSES BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY CAN'T LOGICALLY HELP TAKE CARE OF THE FETUS, AND THEY CAN WASH THEIR HANDS OF IT---WHEN THEY GO HOME TO TAKE CARE THEIR OWN FAMILIES.
     ask anyone of them HOW they are going to help take care of a woman with an unwanted pregnancy, the answer will always be WELFARE and GOODWILL- they will not spend more than the bare minimum.

     they falsely call a fetus, a baby or child--that's a misnomer.
     there is no unborn child or baby because that's an oxymoron.
     they don't even know the difference between feticide, abortion, and infanticide.

     "A fetus is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate after the embryonic stage and before birth.
     In humans, the fetal stage of prenatal development starts at the beginning of the 11th week in gestational age, which is the 9th week after fertilization.[1][2]"
     wikipedia org/wiki/Fetus

     "The term infant is derived from the Latin word infans, meaning "unable to speak" or "speechless." It is typically applied to children between the ages of 1 month and 12 months; however, definitions vary between birth and 3 years of age."
     wikipedia org/wiki/Infant

     "In a legal context, "fetal homicide" or "child destruction" refers to the deliberate or incidental killing of a fetus due to a criminal human act, such as a blow to the abdomen of a pregnant woman"
     wikipedia org/wiki/Feticide----btw, feticide is not murder in new mexico.

     "Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of a fetus or embryo from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death."
     wikipedia org/wiki/Abortion

     Infanticide is the homicide of an infant;
     wikipedia org/wiki/Infanticide

     the best thing for your mind/body to do, if you have an unwanted pregnancy is to abort, and abort early in pregnancy--it doesn't have the ability to feel pain.
     http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-human-condition/2010/06/25/does-the-fetus-feel-pain-uk-report-says-no.html

5. QUESTION:
   is the human fetus is parasite and not a baby?
   i saw this on the Google and the links check out.

   'they lie and say “a fetus is not a parasite because the woman and fetus are the same species”.
   “it is also possible for a symbiotic relationship to exist between two organisms of the same species.”
   http://www.answers.com/topic/symbiosis –Gale’s Science of Everyday Things:
   Symbiosis
   like an parasitic twin.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_twin
   “an animal or plant that lives in or on another (the host) from which it obtains nourishment. The host does not benefit from the association and is often harmed by it
   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parasite
   pregnancy harms women, http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/004.htm

   SO THE HUMAN FETUS IS A PARASITE BECAUSE IT FITS THE DEFINITION, DUH!

   and the human parasitic fetus is not a baby or child?
   "A fetus is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate after the embryonic stage and before birth. In humans, the fetal stage of prenatal development starts at the beginning of the 11th week in gestational age, which is the 9th week after fertilization.[1][2]"
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus

   "infant...however, definitions vary between birth and 3 years of age."
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant"

   is this scientifically accurate? show me with links to prove it.
   everyone keep saying that a fetus is an actual baby.

   • ANSWER:
     it seems to correct to me.
     next time post the whole comment.

     "The female willingly gives her nutrients for the baby"
     no, the body is tricked in to give up her nutrients to the fetus, sometimes at expense of the woman's health.

6. QUESTION:
   Binge drinking during pregnancy - i should have an abortion?
   (by the way i'm not religious, i'm a rationalist) Binge drank in early pregnancy - i think i should have a termination?
   Panic. I binge drank when i didn't know i was 26 days pregant, i should have guessed as i kept having funny dreams about being pregnant... i was about 4 and a half weeks i guess, the most vital stage for brain and facial feature development. i maybe had 4 shots of bacardi (it could have been 5 as i don't know how big the measure my boyfriend poured me was) in about an hour! On a full stomach but i felt quite eurphoric and definitly intoxicated and detached for quite a few hours. I got a hang over and felt nauseous and dizzy well into the early hours. I'm so awfully sorry that this has happened. My boyfriend wants me to have a termination and i think i have to agree, we are both phd students and i'm afraid i couldn't bare to have a retarded child - he has no alcohol tolerance although i can drink like a fish so it is genetically possibly vulnerable. (it was unplanned by the way) after we read this:
   "If a woman binge drinks during such a critical stage, significant harm may be inflicted on the developing fetal brain. The resulting deficits can range from gross structural abnormalities, such as small brain size and significantly altered brain circuitry. Children exposed to even a single binge drinking episode (blood alcohol levels over 0.07 or 80mg) show behavioural difficulties such as in adhd (poor attention and impulse control), have on average 7 points lower iq than controls (sometimes up to 24 points) and perform far less well on verbal and numeric reasoning tests at age 7 and 14. Before age of 7 and 14 their learning disabilites are not evident, but their peers soon surpass them.
   I guess i just want to know i'm doing the right thing in having a termination, i want to know peoples stories.

   I felt pretty drunk, and i felt nausea afterward (my symptoms lasted from 8.30 until 2.30 in the morning), my blood alcohol level must have been at least 0.09, enough to cause the death of a third of the fetal brain cells - which cannot regenerate. Thus i do think i'm fairly screwed. My mother drank like a fish with me but a single binge episode is universally believed to MUCH more harmful than moderate or light drinking (2 a day) over a few hours, or over a week. 4/5 drinks in an hour? That's got to be majorly damaging. My timing was just, awful. And the worst thing is, i never drink usually.

   • ANSWER:
     It really is your choice.Nobody can suggest it or not.Nobody can say if your child would be fine or not.

     How about you ask a doctor if five shots would have been enough to effect a child or not?

     I'd imagine that there are some people who do drink during pregnancy and their babies turn out fine.I think that most of the time, it's alcoholics that drink everyday that affect their children like that.

     If you are going to keep it, try to boost the baby's brain power while in your stomach.Take DHA supplements and perhaps try the "baby plus prenatal education system".If your baby is affected, doing these will help the baby become more functional.

     And for future reference, moderation girl! lol

     Don't be mad at yourself.If you knew, you wouldn't have done it.

     Good luck.

7. QUESTION:
   Binge drank in early pregnancy - i think i should have a termination?
   Panic. I binge drank when i didn't know i was 26 days pregant, i should have guessed as i kept having funny dreams about being pregnant... i was about 4 and a half weeks i guess, the most vital stage for brain and facial feature development. i maybe had 4 shots of bacardi (it could have been 5 as i don't know how big the measure my boyfriend poured me was) in about an hour! On a full stomach but i felt quite eurphoric and definitly intoxicated and detached for quie a few hours. I got a hang over and felt nauseous and dizzy well into the early hours. I'm so awfully sorry that this has happened. My boyfriend wants me to have a termination and i think i have to agree, we are both phd students and i'm afraid i couldn't bare to have a retarded child - he has no alcohol tolerance although i can drink like a fish so it is genetically possibly vulnerable. (it was unplanned by the way) after we read this:
   "If a woman binge drinks during such a critical stage, significant harm may be inflicted on the developing fetal brain. The resulting deficits can range from gross structural abnormalities, such as small brain size (i. e. , microencephaly) with significantly altered brain circuitry. Children exposed to even a single binge drinking episode (blood alcohol levels over 0.07 or 80mg) show behavioural difficulties such as adhd (poor attention and impulse control), have on average 7 points lower iq than controls (sometimes up to 24 points) and perform far less well on verbal and numeric reasoning tests at age 7 and 14. Before age of 7 and 14 their learning disabilites are not evident, but their peers soon surpass them.
   I guess i just want to know i'm doing the right thing in having a termination.
   I felt pretty drunk, and i felt ill afterwards, my blood alcohol level must have been at least 0.07, enough to cause the death of a third of the fetal brain cells - which cannot regenerate. Thus i do think i'm fairly screwed. My mother drank like a fish with me but a single binge episode is universally believed to MUCH more harmful than moderate or light drinking (2 a day) over a few hours, or over a week. 4/5 drinks in an hour? That's got to be majorly damaging. My timing was just, awful. And the worst thing is, i never drink usually.

   • ANSWER:
     So....your answer to a potential problem is to kill somebody?

     First, this problem is your creation. YOU chose to have sex. You may not have intended to become pregnant, but you did participate in the activity that causes pregnancy.

     Second, you have no idea of there is any damage to the child or not. Killing them because there is a chance there may be a developmental problem makes no sense at all.

     Third..."I couldn't bare to have a retarded child." Based on that hugely selfish statement, I am sure the child would be better off if you put him/her up for adoption anyway.