The Issue Of Child Abuse - 1653 Words

A 16-year-old women walked into a clinic, her heart was beating faster than usual, and she had a worried look on her face. She thought back to when she called for an appointment and thought she was just being paranoid thinking, â€Å"I only had sex once.† The nurse called her name and walked her over to a small room saying the doctor should be in soon. Terrified, she thought about how her future would change if she was pregnant and wondered how difficult life would be if she had the baby. She thought about the day she bought the pregnancy test, how she cried once she found out she was pregnant, and what would her boyfriend of four months would take the news. So instead of telling her boyfriend, she decided to â€Å"just get rid of it.† Nobody would†¦show more content†¦The right to a fetus is first shown through its growth, expressions, senses, and through its fundamental rights as a person. There has been so much controversy over the rights of a fetus, but to know the rights a person must know the development of the fetus. A baby does not just â€Å"pop† into this world, it grows from the point a sperm engages with the egg. Once conception starts, there are signals sent throughout a woman’s body saying that pregnancy has occurred, and during the first month, the blastocyt (the baby) is implanted in something called a yolk sac (Weiss, 2014). A yolk sac is what holds the blastocyt until the placenta is formed (Weiss, 2014). During the second month, the blastocyt turns into an embryo and the baby’s heart starts to beat, the upper and lower limbs start to form, and some of the organs are starting to present itself (Weiss, 2014). In the third month, the embryo turns into a fetus, the bones start to harden, and the fetus’s eyes are open and large (Weiss, 2014). The fourth month shows that the placenta has now formed, the baby now urinates, creates its now bile and insulin, and this is the month where the gender is d etectable (Weiss, 2014). There are not really major changes in the fifth month of growth, but the baby is forming its fingerprints, hair and teeth buds, and your baby can hear to the point where loud sounds can even startle the baby (Weiss, 2014). Eyebrows for in the sixth period as well as