OF COURSE we are! You can't even defend your own position! How telling!
"The mother's immune system would normally kill this alien." What an insane pile of TOTAL NONSENSE!
I wouldn't need to back up anything I say, if you had any biological sense at all. You are an example of why a little knowledge can be such a dangerous thing to have. Any scientist or anyone with even a cursory understanding of human biology would know, that anything with a different DNA than the mother would be treated as foreign/alien to the mother's body. And, would be attacked by her immune system. So when I say alien, I'm not talking about little green men. For you to use semantics to distort!
Of all the miracles of life, here’s by far the most miraculous of all: Women’s bodies, for the most part, do not attack and destroy the fetus growing...
slate.com
Dramatic research has shown that during pregnancy, cells of the fetus often migrate through the placenta, taking up residence in many areas of the mother's body, where their influence may benefit or undermine maternal health.
www.sciencedaily.com
www.science.org
But you could have also looked these up, if you really wanted to know. I am NOT trying to defend MY position. It is totally based in science, and does not need to be defended. Your position is based only in a belief. A belief that is NOT based in fact or logic. So I am very pleased to disappoint you.
But you are right! To the scientifically illiterates like you, it IS just a pile of total nonsense! The sad problem is, is that there are so many of you uninformed hypocrites out there, that can't make any distinctions between a fertilized egg, a zygote, an embryo, a fetus, or even a "preemie". They are the ignorant fanatical romantics, who will ignore these differences, and see only a potential walking talking living human being. A human being who deserves the right to live. But it is in the exceptions that makes them all hypocrites.
They don't give a shit about the baby's life after birth, the health of the mother during birth, the circumstances before conception or birth, the health concerns of the baby during and after birth, or the constitutionally protected abortion rights of the mother before birth. They are all just blind followers of the moral imperative of the 5th Commandment(Thou shall not kill). Of course this would require a belief that we were created by a God in the first place.
Roe v Wade = after the point have viability, States can ban elective abortion and only abortion to save the life of the mother must be provided. Simple!
Please think about it dumb-dumb. Any woman who has taken their pregnancy to the third trimester, is not looking to terminate her pregnancy, right? Unless there is a serious threat to her life, or the life of the fetus, she wants to continue her pregnancy to term. We are only talking about the right of all mothers to decide, long before her 3rd trimester, if they want to terminate their pregnancy.
Now I wanted to stop this, because I knew how it would end. You would continue to ask more and more questions, until I gave up answering them. And , like a child, begin pounding your chest in victory. This is exactly what you did(not including the metaphor). Clearly this is just a waste of both our times. Because you don't care what other's have to say. And, you offer nothing to support your own position. Other than air and endless questions.