Do you Believe Life Starts at Conception? Then Stop Calling Pregnant Women ‘Future Mothers’, by Georgiana Constantin-Parke

The case that life begins at conception and that the growing fetus is a baby cannot be made without relating it to the subsequent reality that a woman is a mother the moment she gets pregnant. There is no mother- to- be other than a woman pondering the possibility of getting pregnant. The pregnant one is already a mother, for she now has a child.

One can debate what makes a real mother, of course, but from a biological perspective a pregnant woman is just that. And the sooner we mold our thoughts and language to show this veracity, the easier it will become for everyone to understand it. …

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