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You hear of expectant parents call the little fetus growing inside of them a "baby". Pro-lifers will look at this and go "well, yea, of course it is. It's a baby inside". Some of the pro-lifers may think that parents with wanted pregnancies calling their fetus a baby helps bolster the idea that the fetus IS a baby, an independant being.

However, are the expectant parents really calling the thing growing inside the womb in the current stage it's at a baby, or are they calling it a baby in expectation that it will fully develop into a newborn human being? That, is a big difference here, folks.

We call the thing inside of the womb a "baby" in expectation that it really WILL be a baby when being born.

Compared with unwanted pregnancies, These expectant parents WANT to have a baby! So their desire to have a baby is going to influence how they perceive the pregnancy.

So, ask yourselves this. Should we be comparing parents with wanted pregnancies who call their fetus a "baby" to parents with unwanted pregnancies who don't?

But otherwise, don't let any pro-lifer mislead any of you into calling it a "child", or a "baby". These are inaccurate terms, riddled with emotive and personifying contexts used to tug on the your heart strings and give humanity to where there is none.

The correct terminology is a blastocyst, an embryo, and a fetus. A "potential" child, baby, person, or human, is alright to use, but still carries some of that emotive connotative effect.

During debate and informative conversation, correct medical terms should be used. But during casual conversation, if I was intentionally pregnant, I think I'd just refer to it as my baby. Unintentionally, however, I wouldn't. Probably because I don't want to go through the process in which the fetus becomes a baby.