Hmmm. I wonder what they called a preborn child?
I'm not going to stake out a personal position on creationism/evolution because I've seen how those threads deteriorate into hair splitting and logical gymnastics and I see nothing useful to be gained from it.
But I always find the irony in these articles striking. Here, we can get a majority of scientists and many, many lay people to agree that man evolved and their main question is how many millions of years ago we started being human- but we cannot even agree in this day and age that what's inside a woman's womb when she's pregnant is even human at all.
Those that consider a preborn baby "human" are publicly stigamtized by a significant portion of the population and the scientific community- while those "enlightened" humans that call it "parasite" only argue over when it becomes inappropriate to smash its head with rock. And the irony is magnified by the fact that it doesn't really make one whit of difference if it was 5 or 7 million years ago does it? That's all, quite literally, Ancient History. But if we think of a baby, preborn, as a parasite- an actual human dies.