A fetus is a child is a baby is a patient, and the objection is strange if it’s meant to clarify medical terminology. But it’s not. It’s meant to rattle opponents and justify abortion, or at least obscure it.

My moral intuitions say that the cumulative force of the following set of disanalogies/arguments does clearly defeat such bodily-rights arguments.

In a gentle way, this simple story helps introduce kids to the humanity of babies still in the womb and can instill a sense of appreciation or wonder for all the cool things we can do before ever being born.