What a Fetus is Not...

I've had numerous discussions with people who support legalized abortion. One of the things I've noticed about them is that they will not say what a fetus is.

They will say that the fetus is a potential child.

But that's saying what it's not.

Occasionally, they will suggest some other answers. Here are some refutations of common pro-abort assertions of what a fetus is:


A fetus is not a blob of tissue.

There are a limited number of kinds of tissue mass. A fetus cannot be tisse because he has all kinds of tissue: heart tissue, lung tissue, skin tissue, etc.

A fetus is not a parasite.

A parasite is of a different species. Fetuses are not of a different species. You can't reproduce a parasite. The young of any species will draw on the physical resources of the parents. That's not parasitism, that's reproduction. By nature, born babies are supposed to drink their mother's milk, but that isn't parasitism. An organism's body is designed to accommodate reproduction, it's not designed to accommodate parasites.

A fetus is not an organ.

Organs perform a specific bodily function in a body. Fetuses do not any function for the mother.

A fetus is not a gland.

Ditto.

A fetus is not a woman's body part.

A fetus does not have the same DNA as the woman, therefore, it's not a body part.

A fetus is not a non-living thing.

Non-living things do not take in nutrients, move, intake oxygen, eliminate waste, have a self-contained structure, AT THE SAME TIME. So yes, a fetus may be alive like a cell, but a cell has only one function, whereas a fetus is an organism. Big difference.

A fetus is not a pregnancy.

A pregnancy is the state of the woman carrying the fetus.

Next time you have a debate on abortion, challenge your opponent on this. Even with a clone, the mother's DNA and the fetus' DNA never interact.