To abort or not to abort

[Mudhammam]

One thing that troubles me about pro-lifers (and I do take their arguments seriously) is this idea that a fetus has personhood rights on the basis of its potential to be a sentient being or in virtue of its human DNA. That's all fine but it seems like if one is going to value the status of a fetus, which is presumably not conscious or aware (question: is it perceptive? I don't see how) then pro-lifers should be adamantly against the way other conscious and sentient animals are treated.

Prolifers.....like non prolifers grant moral protection to future expectation of personhood. The difference is that prolifers recognize that a fetus has a future expectation of personhood because that is the consistent position.

Fine but that doesn't answer my question. There's nothing consistent as far as I can see in the position that "a future expectation of personhood" be regarded more sacred than the present sentience of a pig or a cow.