

And this site offers footage of an actual D&E abortion, though I can't determine exactly what gestational age. The illustration uses a 14-week fetus but the only difference in a D&E at 18 weeks is the size, as you can see by this medical illustration of a D&E abortion of a 23-week fetus. What does an abortion do to an 18 week fetus? A medical illustration of how a second-trimester D&E abortion is performed is here.

(Like a c-section, but with the intention being a dead fetus rather than a live baby.) Here is the famous Life magazine cover showing an 18-week fetus, still alive and with the amniotic sac entact, after a hysterotomy abortion. The uterus of female fetuses is also fully formed.Īt this site you can see 3D ultrasounds of unborn babies of various ages, and ultrasound video clips of 17 and 19 week fetuses. Ovaries of female fetuses contain primitive egg cells.Fetus has phases of sleep and waking and may prefer a favorite sleep position.The fetus is about five to five and a half inches long from the crown of its head to its bottom (they're measured that way because of how they lie curled up in the womb) and weighs about 5.25 ounces or 150 grams. Here is The Visible Embryo's illustration of, and information about, an 18 week fetus. At 8 week, every major system is in place and the young human is now a fetus. At conception, the new entity is an embryo. There is no such thing, any more than there's 19-year-old infant. Somebody was searching for "18 week embryo".
