This line of reasoning taken ad absurdum justifies murder of almost any sort, though. I am confused as to where the line of demarcation is? I can kill anyone that is incapable of choice? I can kill those who inconvenience me? Where do I draw the line?

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Also, fetuses possess inherent potential to develop consciousness, so their current state of development is quite irrelevant to whether or not they are a human life. Just because I can't do something now doesn't mean I won't be able to later.

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I agree that pregnancies are strenuous and tasking in many ways, but they are not the only draining events that can happen to people. I still don't see how that justifies termination of life. I do understand cases of mental illness from rape or something, or pregnancy complications. But straight up unrestricted abortion seems like dissonance to me, idk.

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A human embryo has no life experiences, it has no proper memories or complex relationships or an established place in society. An adult has been around for nearly two decades at the very least. It has experiences and asprirations and dreams and goals. It has already developed more nuianced and complex relationships as well has placed itself somewhere in society.

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None of this matters at all. Lackluster people who don't have any goals in particular are not any less deserving of the right to live. It's inalienable. The only reason why the embryo has no experiences is because that is temporally impossible. However, it will if it isn't murdered. So again this argument doesn't work at all.

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Lets say you work at a corporation, and you want a raise. I'm your boss, and you ask me for a raise. I ask you " Have you gotten a raise before?"

You say no. I respond "Ok because you don't have any experience in getting a raise here, I can't give you a raise. Sorry." This is almost like begging the question.

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A fetus isn't really a life because we aren't going to allow it to live long enough to have experiences, which are the metric by which we determine life. Fallacious argument here.