@sneakypete
We have a parasitic growth called the fedgov. How do you change something like that? Please throw some insight at this. Plus all the other smaller offshoot parasites that do nothing for the host but by leave of the parent parasite are destroying the host. Best thing is to get down and dirty and excise the parasite. And then burn it with fire. I wonder how you view yourself? Parasite. Or something else. If there is nothing out there then there is nothing in there either. So it is pointless to even begin to try. Unless you are a parasite. Maybe you view yourself as an isolated energy system. But I don't think science has found any of those yet. Everything interacts with everything else. I think it is that interaction that we need to define. So leave religion out and answer it from a scientific point of view. What kind of force and how much. What kind of energy and how much. etceterata
I'm up for a scientific viewpoint.
First off, a parasite isn't the same species as the host. It is another organism of another species, dependent on the host organism for nutrients. If the host dies, parasites commonly have the option of moving on. A tick, most beetles, mites, worms, insects all have the ability to find another host if they can. They are still a separate and genetically different organism from their host, often not of the same biological (taxonomic) Class, Order, or Family of the host.
Defining an immature form of the same organism, despite the variation in DNA still within the genus and species as a "parasite" doesn't fly. The quintessential question is one of when life begins. Not life as we, adults, know it. It'll be a long time before the little nipper pops the chute and starts making stock picks or drag racing on Saturday night, but it's still, given normal opportunities for development and barring accident, or incident, a developing human from conception.
"Fetus" describes a stage of development, just as "infant", "Toddler", "Child", "pre-teen" or "tween", "teenager", "young adult", "adult", "mature adult", "Middle aged", "Senior", "Elderly", "Old fart", "Crusty a**ed curmudgeon", "geezer", and a host of other euphemisms which place someone in an age group often associated with a developmental phase in human life. No one would argue that any of those other developmental stages are not human, so why pick on the little guy?
In essence, I see that as a way of rationalizing the destruction of what would have otherwise been a healthy (within acceptable parameters) human.
Of all those developmental stages, this is the one not capable of screaming its outrage and pain at being summarily destroyed. I guess that makes it easier to rationalize, and the fact that they won't be waiting on the porch or behind the screen door with a shotgun makes it less dangerous to destroy them.
While other species under stress (not enough food or illness) will spontaneously abort their young, as humans well might (miscarriages), no other species destroys its own young strictly for abstract reasons.
Some studies have found an increased risk of breast cancer with induced abortion, other organizations have a clear profit motive in burying that information, if that research is correct.