For pro-life activists, there are two opinions. The first overwhelming opinion is that once the child is conceived, it is living. The second follows the idea of once a mother feels the child “kick,” which is around the eighth week, it is living. For pro-choice activists, scientific fact argues loudly that the fetus is absolutely “unable to sustain life outside the woman’s womb… instead an in utero fetus with the potential of becoming a child.” (Planning Parenthood) The fetus creates no genuine brain wave activity until the third trimester of the pregnancy, only instinctual electric impulses prior to that. Its cerebral cortex does not appear till the second trimester, thus meaning it can feel no pain in its first 12 weeks of
For pro-life activists, there are two opinions. The first overwhelming opinion is that once the child is conceived, it is living. The second follows the idea of once a mother feels the child “kick,” which is around the eighth week, it is living. For pro-choice activists, scientific fact argues loudly that the fetus is absolutely “unable to sustain life outside the woman’s womb… instead an in utero fetus with the potential of becoming a child.” (Planning Parenthood) The fetus creates no genuine brain wave activity until the third trimester of the pregnancy, only instinctual electric impulses prior to that. Its cerebral cortex does not appear till the second trimester, thus meaning it can feel no pain in its first 12 weeks of