When?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n To some women, this may be the moment of the positive predictor test. To other women, it may be much later. One cannot put a date to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the beginning, the fetus has no human appearance. For instance, in one stage, it looks like a fish. Of course, the ‘child’ is not related to this appearance but to what it symbolizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bond<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If there is an emotional bond, whether the woman herself or someone\/something else ends it, the ‘life that could have been’ may be profoundly meaningful to the woman for quite some time \u2015 maybe for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She then also has a ‘life that could have been.’ That’s the life of herself as the mother of this child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meaningful<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This should be taken care of very humanely in every single case. At least, the woman deserves deep listening-to<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many women who have ever had an abortion \u2013 also if induced \u2013 suffer with symptoms akin to those of post-traumatic stress: bouts of sadness, flashbacks, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My deceased mother was one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It becomes a child from the moment the woman feels it as a child.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From that moment, taking it away is an abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The right to decide what happens within one’s inside is an inalienable right \u2015 apart from the child’s right. But then we are back to who decides whether it’s a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Should this be a cognitive decision or a deeply felt emotional one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n One can discuss this for a long time. But:<\/p>\n\n\n\n