Iamon lyme: Is it.. they can't survive without their host for 9 months. As such the mechanics are that the foetus has to 'trick' the hosts immune system to not kill it. It does not even have a nervous system to be able to feel pain for several weeks. It is as such biologically wise a potential independent being, and only when it is born independently alive.

Children are alive, so are the women who give birth to them.

Abolishing abortion will only drive it underground. Did you think of that and the consequences to the health of women? Did your moral outrage allow you to make a hypocrisy of your "big government", "freedom" and "equality" while you tell all women that they have to live by your rules!!