Chicago Tribune: The analogy between fetus and parasite fails on a couple of important counts. A fetus, unlike a tapeworm, is not an organism of one species living in another. Fetus and mother, I dare point out, are of the same species. A fetus, unlike a parasite, does not die once separated by birth from the "host organism." It thrives and continues in a positive and healthful relationship with the mother.
. . . The idea that the fetus is a parasite is a measure of where we have come in a culture that is a captive of radical individualism of both the left and the right. It lays open the true picture of what motivates hard-core pro-choicers who reject any suggestion the society has an interest in protecting and preserving life in the womb.
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