palimpsest, doesn't "expectant" say it all? It's about what could be, not about the fetus. We don't tell people about pregnancy until week 12 or so because things can and do go wrong.
Prior to the birth of our two children my partner had a miscarriage. The grief wasn't about the actual fetus, but about what could have been. The expectation of a bouncing baby, the excitement of first time parenting, realising how life would change.

Now if you happen not to want a child that expectation could well be different, however the view on the fetus essentially is the same. It is a potential life. No more, no less. We all want whats best for that potential life when it arrives, for some it's best it simply doesn't arrive.

Davidf writes 'Buddhism, Judaism and Islam are all superior to and more reasonable than Christianity'

Yea sure David that is why the likes of you and the vast majority want to live in countries freed by Christian principles. You do make some pretty dumb statements. Can't you just see people lining up to immigrate to Islamic countries.

Runner wrote: "Can't you just see people lining up to immigrate to Islamic countries."

Dear Runner,

It has already happened. When Christianity reigned supreme in Europe Jews and other non-Christians fleeing the Inquisition and other expressions of Christian love found a welcome in the Islamic countries. The medieval Christian universities were open only to Christians. In the Muslim universities Christians, Jews, Buddhists and other non-Muslim scholars were welcome. The evil of Christianity has been moderated by the secular state and the democratic ideal of the separation of church and state.

Considering such expressions of Christianity as the Inquisition, the Crusades. the Wars of the Reformation, the Holocaust carried out by a Nazi Germany backed by and large by Christian churches and other Christian horrors Islam has been relatively tolerant. Islam is now in its own Dark Ages, but there are signs that it is coming out of it.

Please look at http://www.resetdoc.org/EN/Arab-civil-society.php which contains "Arab civil society? It is already in the future (and waiting for politics)"

The Holocaust was a nationalist act, not a Christian one. Have a look at the 'state religion' set up by Hitler, which was more pagan than anything else.

I took a look at the DLP policies webb, they’re draconian, there are absolutely no rights for women, but plenty for the unborn, why is that? I can’t see many people backpedaling away from current rights and then buying into this, there is no possible way your regime could come into power in this day and age, thankfully!

Democratic Labour Party Polices:
http://203.10.72.20/~delapa//~policies.htm

*A permanent embargo on all tax funding for procured abortions, destructive human embryo experiments and the artificial reproduction of human life for any utilitarian end.

*Enforcement of the criminal law with respect to procured abortions and euthanasia through the prosecution of medical professionals who violate human life.

*Establishment at Federal State and Territory levels of an office of Advocate for the Unborn Child with all the functions, powers and duties necessary to promote and protect the life of the unborn, to afford legal voice or representation in all pertinent forums, to investigate impending medical and other threats to the child's natural right to be born and to instigate prosecutions for offences under relevant laws.

Furthermore, the crusades weren't entirely Christian, either. As far as I was aware, there were Muslims fighting as well?