Because apparently this article needed to be written.

Planned Parenthood is getting shellacked right now due to the release of videos showing their heinous practice of selling off parts of the baby for profit. The progressive left is in full crisis mode and are pulling out all the stops in order to save their grandest ship from sinking.

This actions include a hamfisted attempt at discrediting the video makers by being outraged that the video makers obtained the videos under false pretenses…something the world already knew and frankly doesnâ€™t care about.

The other method â€“ and my personal favorite one â€“ is the flat-out denial that itâ€™s even happening. No joke. At least once a day thereâ€™s some poor mook fresh from the resocialization tank trying to tell me that my own eyes and ears arenâ€™t to be believed, but Media Matters should be.

But one justification for abortion Iâ€™ve seen used time and again is the argument that a baby is essentially a parasite.

Iâ€™ll give the stupid people who make this argument the smallest bit of understanding. On the surface, a developing baby may seem sort of like a parasite. It does feed off of mommyâ€™s food intake, it makes mommy sick sometimes, and it grows healthy and big by taking advantage of mommyâ€™s biological functions until it finally pops out of her in a slightly more gross way than that birthing scene from Alien. The placenta even has a way to mask itself from the immune system, just like a parasite.

So yes, stupid people, it kind of does resemble a parasite in a very shallow sort of way, but before you go back to coloring, read the following so that youâ€™re better educated about how much a baby is NOT like a parasite.

First letâ€™s start with some logic.

A parasite is an organism of one species that feeds off a host of a different species. This canâ€™t apply to babies, since the pregnant mother and baby are both homospecific. Also, the motherâ€™s body not only prepares for the babyâ€™s arrival before the baby is conceived, it biologically takes steps to make sure the baby grows strong and healthy.

A womanâ€™s body does not prepare to gladly receive a tapeworm, nor does she or the body wish for the tapeworm to get all the nutrients it needs so that one day she can give birth to it and share an unbreakable emotional connection to it. She will not dress the tapeworm in tiny clothes, call it â€śmy angel,â€ť and do â€śbaby yogaâ€ť with it.

The tapeworm is an unwelcome guest by both mother and motherâ€™s body.

Furthermore, mom cannot create a parasite of another species. Parasite are foreign objects introduced into the system through various means, but none of them originated from the host. You could make the argument that sperm is introduced from outside the motherâ€™s body, but remember â€“ my stupid friend â€“ that the sperm cell is still homospecific and the motherâ€™s body is designed to accept it.

Another way they differ is that a parasite is purely interested in taking from its host in order to strengthen itself without giving anything back. A mother and her baby have zero desire to see one another become weak, as both have a massive interest in each otherâ€™s survival.

Itâ€™s been a long thought theory that pregnancy weakens the immune system so that it doesnâ€™t attack the baby, but the truth of the matter is that pregnancy actually boosts momâ€™s immune system in different ways to super-human levels. While highly beneficial, it can sometimes cause a bit of a problem in terms of hyperinflammation, but not immunodeficiency.

But one of the biggest tells that a baby isnâ€™t a parasite is a study that showed a very interesting relationship between baby and mom on a cellular level. If mom suffers any damage to her heart, or other vital organs a baby will actually donate stem cells via the circulatory system in order to heal her. In fact, the cell exchange is a dual process. The motherâ€™s cells enter the baby as well. They essentially build and repair each other.

As you can see, both mother and baby work together to be as strong as possible. This is not indicative of a parasitic relationship, but a symbiotic one.

On a side note, pregnancy has a fun habit of reducing cancer risk. According to studies, the more babies you push out, the lower the risk. So baby actually makes you healthier! Also a fun fact is that women who do give birth tend to have better sex due to increased blood flow to the vaginal area, resulting in more pleasure and more orgasms.

Letâ€™s see a leech do that.

Now donâ€™t get me wrong. Pregnancy isnâ€™t all sunshine and rainbows. There are pains, bloating, hormones run amok, and my nurse friend who works specifically in delivery rooms has told me stories over drinks that that made me never wish delivery on anyone. Thing is, even despite the horror of it, no crying mother holding her baby for the first time would ever think of calling it a parasite.

Pregnancy does have problems, but itâ€™s a natural process that women were literally designed for. No humanâ€™s body is naturally designed to welcome parasites. In fact, our bodies have many preventative measures in place to resist them.

It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to paint the kid as some sinister force out to rob the woman of her reproductive health. In fact, abortion tends to lessen reproductive health. Planned Parenthood seems to rarely mention that.

In any case, now youâ€™re educated in various ways a baby is not a parasite, and Iâ€™m 100 percent sure that as time goes on, weâ€™ll get even more examples as scientific research progresses.

You still believe in science, right?

Hailing from Austin, Texas, Brandon Morse has been writing about politics and culture across many websites for the last six years, with a heavy emphasis on anti-authoritarianism. Aside from writing articles, he is also known for voice acting and authoring scripts. He is an avid gamer, dog person, and has a bad habit of making vague references to things no one has heard about or seen. Follow him at @TheBrandonMorse on Twitter.

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