Tucker Carlson got bested in an argument with planned parenthood spokeswoman Dawn Laguens last night. He was fixated on getting an answer to his question: “What is that thing that’s being aborted?” Tucker believes abortion is murder or something like that. He called Dawn Laguens comments “childish” and after he removed the camera from her, when he no longer was facing her, he called her interview a uniquely shallow interview. That was because he couldn’t grasp or accept her answers and since he was the one conducting the interview he should realize he needs to answer why he conducted such a shallow and childish interview.
Tucker answered his own question and his answer to his question is at the end of this article. It is also Dawn Laguens answer which she gave but which Carlson appeared not to hear when she gave it.
Anti-choicers like Carlson insist not only that a fetus is a human being, but that this status is an objective scientific fact. They are assuming the very thing that requires proving, thereby committing the logical fallacy of “begging the question” aka. a circular argument, i.e., assuming the thing to be proven is true.
Let’s disprove the anti-women and the anti-choice argument by looking at: “Blood Circulation in the Fetus and Newborn.”


How does the fetal circulatory system actually work?
During pregnancy there is no working circulation system because the fetus cannot oxygenate it’s own blood nor can it clear it’s blood of the toxins in it’s own waste. It’s on an elaborate life support system that’s being operated by the pregnant woman. The fetus depends on the woman and her placenta and the connecting umbilical cord for nourishment, toxin clearing and oxygen. The fetal heart beats but does not pump blood into and out of the lungs until after it is born because there is an opening, a “hole” between the top chambers. The hole between the top two heart chambers (right and left atrium) is called patent foramen ovale, (PFO). In addition there are two additional openings in the fetal heart, one to divert blood to the umbilical cord and the other to accept aterial blood. These are critical points that the anti-abortion people always ignore either maliciously because it undercuts their argument or out of purposeful ignorance.

Since the fetus doesn’t have working lungs it doesn’t breathe air. Fetal blood circulates differently than it does after birth


The placenta is the organ that develops and implants in the pregnant woman’s womb (uterus) during pregnancy. The fetus is connected to the woman’s placenta by the umbilical cord which includes venal blood and arterial blood along with the paths for both, paths which are not inside the fetus. They are in the woman’s womb.
All the necessary nutrition, oxygen, and life support from the woman’s blood goes through the placenta and back into the fetus through blood vessels in the umbilical cord.
Waste products and carbon dioxide from the fetus are sent back through the umbilical cord blood vessels and placenta to the woman’s circulation system to be eliminated.


While the fetus is in the uterus, it’s lungs are unable to inflate. They are not used as they are after birth. The fetal liver is not fully developed. Circulating fetal blood flow follows these separate paths until immediately after birth:
Oxygen and nutrients from the mother’s blood are transferred across the placenta to the fetus through the umbilical cord.
This enriched blood flows through the umbilical vein toward the fetal liver. There it moves through a shunt called the ductus venosus.
This allows some of the blood to go to the liver. But most of this highly oxygenated blood flows to a large vessel called the inferior vena cava and then into the right atrium of the fetal heart. A fetal heart is not a working heart.
Here is what happens inside the fetal heart:

When oxygenated blood from the mother enters the right side of the heart it flows into the upper chamber (the right atrium). Most of the blood flows across to the left atrium through an opening, a “shunt” called the foramen ovale.
From the left atrium, blood moves down into the lower chamber of the heart (the left ventricle). It is then pumped into the first part of the large artery coming from the heart (the ascending aorta).
From the aorta, the oxygen-rich blood is sent to the brain and to the heart muscle itself. Blood is also sent to the lower body.
Blood returning to the heart from the fetal body contains carbon dioxide and waste products as it enters the right atrium. It flows down into the right ventricle, where it normally would be sent to the lungs to be oxygenated. Instead, it bypasses the lungs and flows through the ductus arteriosus into the descending aorta, which connects to the umbilical arteries. From there, blood flows back into the placenta. There the carbon dioxide and waste products are released into the mother’s circulatory system. Oxygen and nutrients from the mother’s blood are transferred across the placenta. Then the cycle starts again.
At birth, major changes take place. The umbilical cord is clamped and the now born baby no longer receives oxygen and nutrients from the mother. With the first breaths of air, the lungs begin to expand, and the ductus arteriosus and the foramen ovale both close. The baby’s circulation and blood flow through the heart now function like an adult’s.
Here’s another explanation: The blood that flows through the fetus is actually more complicated than after the baby is born (normal heart). This is because the mother (the placenta) is doing the work that the baby’s lungs will do after birth. Note that at birth the name of the fetus changes into baby because there is no such thing as a born fetus or an unborn baby. The Politically Correct anti-choice people invented a mythical thing to try to overcome the biology of pregnancy and turn the fetus into something it is not. A fetus changes into a baby after birth. It is the fetus that is unborn and at birth the fetus becomes a baby. It a baby a miracle? In the case of the chages of the fetal heart before and after birth, it certainly seems like it. But miracles don’t happen in the real world. Miracles are in the supernatural realm with it’s mythical suppositions about the supernatural origin, working sand purpose of reality. Unborn babies belong to the supernatural or non-real universe. Fetii and

The placenta accepts the bluest blood (blood without oxygen) from the fetus through blood vessels that leave the fetus through the umbilical cord (umbilical arteries, there are two of them). When blood goes through the placenta it picks up oxygen and becomes red. The red blood then returns to the fetus via the third vessel in the umbilical cord (umbilical vein). The red blood that enters the fetus passes through the fetal liver and enters the right side of the heart.

The red blood goes through one of the two extra connections in the fetal heart that will close after the baby is born.

The hole between the top two heart chambers (right and left atrium) is called a patent foramen ovale (PFO). This is an actual hole and it allows the reddest blood to go from the right atrium to left atrium and then to the left ventricle and out the aorta. As a result the blood with the most oxygen gets to the fetal brain.

Blood coming back from the fetus’s body also enters the right atrium, but the fetus is able to send this blue blood from the right atrium to the right ventricle (the chamber that normally pumps blood to the lungs). Most of the blood that leaves the right ventricle in the fetus bypasses the lungs through the second of the two extra fetal connections known as the ductus arteriosus.

The ductus arteriosus sends the bluer blood to the organs in the lower half of the fetal body. This also allows for the bluest blood to leave the fetus through the umbilical arteries and get back to the placenta to pick up oxygen.

Since the patent foramen ovale and ductus arteriosus are normal findings in the fetus, it is impossible to predict whether or not these connections will close normally after birth in a normal fetal heart. These two bypass pathways in the fetal circulation make it possible for most fetuses to survive pregnancy even when there are complex heart problems and not be affected until after birth when these pathways begin to close.
ANSWER TO TUCKERS QUESTION” “WHAT IS THAT THING THAT’S BEING ABORTED?
If it’s past being a zygot or a blastocyst it’s a fetus.

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