Pre-Born or Just Unborn?

 

We had some questions/comments on the unborn v. pre-born issue. Interestingly, they were all from men who probably don't know at least one very important statistic about birth in the U.S. and other so-called advanced countries.

We are not discussing the 51% or more of fertilized eggs that don't attach to the uterine wall to complete conception, but established pregnancies in the first trimester. 10% to 20% end in spontaneous abortions. 

If we presented 10 pregnant social workers at a seminar on mother/infant mortality, it would be perfectly correct to introduce them as ten experts along with their unborn offspring.

It would be totally incorrect to introduce them as ten social workers and their pre-born offspring. Sadly, we can expect one or two of them to lose their pregnancy before it enters the second trimester. 

Alabama - where 36.4 women out of 100,000 die during childbirth...