Is a fetus a corporeal component of the gravida?

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It is your occasional choice of adjective that grates me, but I do realize my own responsibility for possibly trying to hear them less offensively. And along with that, I do apologize for occasionally confusing things at times by making statements that might really convey nothing beyond my general ignorance of all the related terms and their most-proper or -accurate usages.

A foetus is certainly not a "fully-viable human", yet "it" nevertheless is one ... and it is in that light that I say the mother's eventual deliver of "it" is merely a change of location. The fact that the human foetus is circumstantially out-of-sight and that we cannot naturally identify "it" as either a "him" or a "her" while "it" yet remains in the womb does not make "it" anything less than the human foetus "it" actually is.

If I can get this picture attached, I would just like to add something more to the idea of a mother's responsibility toward the child within ...

This is a picture of my older daughter blowing my oldest granddaughter's first breath into her ...

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/TZ ... directlink

Edit: Can somebody show me how to add the actual picture to this post?

I dont have the womb for this conversation in my life.

One problem leejosepho and dent, is that the dependency doesnt suddenly end. A baby born a week early has almost every certainty of survival. A newborn is dependant on its mother, though a surrogate may take her place.

That being said, there is another situation that addresses this issue, and its much more divisive. iamnotaparakeet, have you ever heard of a human chimera or a mosaic human?

Its when two developing foetuses fuse, and unlike a siamese twin, they become one properly formed body.

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=412

So does that person have two souls? Two minds? One person or two?

Fuzzy I fully get the complexities of pregnancy. I just get annoyed by the simplistic christian view of the matter.

Yes, if a fetus is in a woman's body, then it is a component of such until birth.

Agreed, most of the time, a fetus is just a fetus.