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Your argument is pointless. Abortion is only allowed (barring emergency for the mothers health) In the first Trimester, or 12 weeks. You point out watching videos at 24 weeks (the very end of the second trimester) and the 30th and 36th weeks, so in the mid-third trimester, or immediately before birth. I don't deny that abortion should be restricted to the first trimester, but this article makes a pointless and hyperbolic argument.
There is something existential about sitting around the den during the holidays and watching home videos from when the children were young, dad was thin, and mom was trying to hold it all together amid the craziness.
In those moments, watching while sister holds hot chocolate, brother holds a glass of tea, and dad sips coffee, comments fly—like “look how dirty Tommy’s face was” and “Sally must have done her own hair that day” and “Mom still looks as young as she did then.”
Perhaps grandpa appears in the video for a second and silence falls over the room, for...
Not to mention that, for a fair portion of said first trimester, a girl/woman doesn't even know she's pregnant yet.