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PoindexterOglethorpe

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Tue Feb 5, 2019, 06:04 AM
Feb 2019

Fetal heartbeats can be detected about 20 minutes after conception. It's not a meaningful marker. Plus, of course there's the disturbing issue of fetal anomalies not compatible with life that are not detectable until after 20 weeks.

I myself have never been confronted with such a choice. The closest things is that when I was pregnant with my first child and had very bad morning sickness, I more than once thought that if I had a miscarriage, I don't know if I'd had the courage to attempt to get pregnant again. Which isn't the same thing at all, which I understood then and I understand now,

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