This is a fetus at 7 weeks after conception. Shown next to it is a nickel to compare its size.
This is a picture of a fetus at 8 weeks after conception shown next to a quarter.
at 9 weeks from conception, the fetus is little bigger than a quarter.
This is a picture of a 10 week old fetus next to a quarter. It's head is still smaller than a quarter.
A fetus at 11 weeks after conception.
These real photos came from http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-warning.html.
Human is defined as "The modern species of humans, the only extant species of the primate family Hominidae." (from www.answers.com/human). With this vague response to the definition of human, I searched for the definition of 'person' and found this; "A human being". These were all potential human beings. they could of been good or bad, white or black, but they were persons, human beings. One of the arguments against abortion is the fetus is deprived of a brilliant future. It could be a future president or scientist who discovers the cure for cancer. This can be contested that it could also become the next serial murderer or lowlife.
The definition of 'moral' is; "Of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action and character" . What pops into peoples head when they think about abortions is; is it moral to have one. So many questions are asked like is it living? Does it feel pain? What will happen to the mother? What does the law say about this? What it boils down to i is it right? Is it good? Morals are taught to us from the day we are born, which is a joke almost in the case of abortions seeing as they are removing the factor of being born. Therefore fetus's don't have morals, which is to say, we are now forcing our morals onto it. Nevertheless. The morals taught to us from birth are vague but punctuate forgiveness, trust, love, and what are known as good characteristics/ morals. But when morals are applied to abortion, they get very conflicting and confusing. The general consensus of morality is that it is wrong to kill/ murder or maim. But one of the questions is "Is a fetus alive" which brings a lot of controversy. Then it becomes not a question of morals, but of ethics. For most people, doing what is illustrated graphically above is morally wrong. Doing that to a being whether it is alive or not is still wrong.

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