In the very earliest weeks of pregnancy it is simply not true that the embryo is yet an unborn child.
In the later weeks, it certainly is true.
That distinction is rejected by Christians of all orthodox persuasions who insist on protection of the fetus from the moment of conception, allowing at most an exception to save the life of the mother, and by pro-choice folks who insist upon an unrestricted right to abortion at will at any time before the moment of actual, completed delivery.
Hence Democrats resist even efforts to ban or restrict late term abortions while Republicans do this.
This, on the other hand, is at neither extreme, resting as it does on the presence in the fetus of actual, functioning organs.
Generally the heartbeat is audible at 9 or 10 weeks, weeks after the circulatory system begins to elaborate.
That seems a not unreasonable test of whether the fetus is or is not yet an unborn child.
But not everybody wants to take any such thing into account.
In fact, most on both sides don't.
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