Stop calling foetuses parasites
To clarify i am 100% pro-choice, but i feel like calling a foetus a “parasite” is very crude and pretty inhumane, i feel like it is an awful argument on all fronts:
-By definition: cannot be parasitic as it is the same species (by extension, i hate the argument that a foetus isn’t human as many people like to argue, you can have a human foetus, a dog foetus or a cat foetus, saying that they’re not human implies that all foetuses are just default living beings that miraculously shape-shift into the species of its mother), generally a horrible argument imo.
-By biology: it is literally a symbiotic relationship, it is known that a foetus can transfer stem cells to its mother in the case of injury.
-By logic: come on guys and gals, you are calling an unborn baby a parasite simply because it is a convenient argument, which i see as an attempt to desensitise yourself from the situation whilst at the same time undermining the pre-born living small human inside you.
I want to re-iterate, that i am PRO-CHOICE, people should be given the opportunity to abort their child if they need to; ie illegitimate child (through assault etc), a child that cannot be amply supported, a child that would suffer throughout its life etc etc.
But i just wanted to point out that this argument, at least to me, seems to be incredibly self-destructive and not productive at all, because it makes the people who make that argument sound very ridiculous and borderline insane because it isn’t grounded in reality at all, moreover a hypothetical person who is sitting on the fence and sees such an argument would likely turn away from prochoice.