I believe the point is "separate, as in not the same as the mother". It's not the mother - it has different DNA. This is the problem with the whole "a woman's right to do what she wants with her own body" response: It's not her body. Or at least, it's not all her body. Part of it is a different individual. And so her right to do what she wants with her own body is inextricably intertwined with another individual that she does not have that same right over.
But, in the sense that you took it: We currently can save children born prematurely at 22 weeks. Normally such a child would live within and attached to the mother for another 18 weeks, but if we need to, such a child can live outside but attached to a bunch of machines.
So, at least separable, even if not usually separate.
>This is the problem with the whole "a woman's right to do what she wants with her own body" response: It's not her body.
It is. Or so I claim. Renders the rest of the argument moot.
Also, no woman is aborting fetuses for fun. The whole issue is a waste of time and just a way to get people riled up for no reason, at the expense of women losing rights because doctors now have to watch their back for even more liability.
You would be surprised. I know of some "women rights activists" who basically do this for bragging rights, or maybe some kind of "rite of passage". And some doctors who talk about aborting 9 month fetuses as if it was giving them a boner.
I also know a celebrity who had an abortion, because she didn't feel like moving to a bigger apartment (which she could easily afford, given that she and her partner are making millions in income).
It’s a lie, not just outside the norm. Later term abortions are all for medical reasons. See data in MotherJones link.
But people against women’s rights will have you believe there is some sort of epidemic where women are choosing to go through 8 months of pregnancy, and then wake up in an evil mood, go to the doctor’s office, and order an abortion off the combo menu to get their jollies off.
And if that wasn’t crazy enough, that there are doctors that would just go ahead and do it.
But, in the sense that you took it: We currently can save children born prematurely at 22 weeks. Normally such a child would live within and attached to the mother for another 18 weeks, but if we need to, such a child can live outside but attached to a bunch of machines.
So, at least separable, even if not usually separate.