She also normally has control of it once it's born. At what point does the child go from a 'fetus' to a 'child'? There is absolutely a time where a child cannot survive outside a womb, and that is used to say the the child is not really a child yet and can be aborted. Yet, no one will argue that a tadpole that cannot survive outside the water its egg is laid in, until a certain age, is not a frog.