it’s the no missed periods combined with it that I question.
I took that to mean that you couldn't understand how a woman could get pregnant, miss periods, and it not be a clue to the pregnancy or some other underlying condition. And I had responded that for obese women, regular periods may not occur, and could not be used as a pregnancy indicator.
I have no doubt that this is a push for legalized abortion, just like when I have my female peers tell me how awful it was for their grandmothers, in horribly abusive situations, having to bear dozens of kids was an excuse for abortion. But, I was simply responding to the point about missed menstrual cycles, it is an effect of obesity. And there are medical rarities where women can have underlying conditions which result in "periods" etc that may not clue them into pregnancy. ie: placenta previa might cause spotting. I would be more suspect of not feeling the baby kick, etc.
No problem. You are right about the rare cases where spotting occurs during pregnancy. I suppose that it is possible that the baby had a problem that led to the lack of sensable kicking, or that the mother may have had her own problems that kept her from feeling it.
What we don’t have a publicized record of in El Salvador or Nicaragua, is a mother of a miscarried 10 week old little one, being harangued by investigators with a bright light in her face. That’s the picture they would produce if they could.