[thecavemaster]

My point still can operate under your premise. Even if you say that the fertilized egg has less value than the mother's life, you still admit that there is value. And if there is some value to that life, how does said value not trump the mother's desire to just not be pregnant? You could look at it like on a continuum:

mother's life > unborn baby's life > mother's convenience/preference

I don't see it that way: if the premise is the fertilized egg is not of equal value to the mother's life, who exists outside the womb, then the higher organism gets the choice, as happens on a daily, minute by minute basis. The conclusion follows the premise: your foisting of your conclusion on that premise changes the basic argument to a different one...one that I am not making.