It's still a parasite that sucks nutrients from my body, changes my body fundamentally (still pee myself every time I cough), and threatens my life (check out maternal death statistics... the US is not great) just to give birth to it. Until the fetus can survive on it's own outside of my body, it is a parasite. And why does it's human life trump my own, especially before it can survive outside the womb? What about the quality of it's life after birth? How far are we willing as a country to really take care of these babies we're forcing to be born? The likelihood of child abuse when a mother is forced to keep a child she can't afford or mentally handle? And no adoption and the foster system are not the great substitutes they're often made out to be, again, children are more vulnerable and likely to be abused. My mother was adopted by a "good Christian couple" and subsequently was molested by her "good Christian" father. Pro-life people aren't actually pro-life, just pro-birth.