One , a fetus is not a person . Wherther it is a person or not is simply using mental gymnastics to justify destroying it . The fact is that a fetus is an independent , unique human life . If it cannot exist outside the host body , it is not its own life form yet . Well that ' s just completely wrong . Do you even understand biology ? There are plenty of unique life forms that cannot survive outside . Also , a pregnant woman is not a host . Two , a brain that early in development has less capacity for coherent thought than a newborn . I agree . Actually brain development continues through puberty . If you ' re going to draw the line based on brain development , why is one arbitrary point birth better than any other say age 3 ? why should the mother go through the always dangerous process of birthBirth is not particularly dangerous , especially with modern medicine . which the mother cannot afford to care forDid you miss the point about adoption ? Pregnancy is not for women at least an 18 year sentence . Most states allow a woman to give her child up for adoption with no questions asked . when they could end the fetus before it can think in the first place ? Because maybe if the fetus is given a chance to think it might not choose to die . As others have said what gives you the right to decide someone else should live ?