A (human) mother that carries a growing fetus is a living being. A pig, dog or a cow as well. They feel physically and emotionally and can be hurt.

A fetus is, up to a certain point, just a slab of meat.

As a vegan I don’t care about slabs of meat, I care about living beings and I think we shouldn’t hurt them.

That doesn’t work. Either there is physical proof or there is none. Afaik the latter is correct.

The problem is: most times it works the other way. You are at a barbeque and bring your own stuff. There are always people who feel obliged to talk shit about you – or worse, cannot shut up about their own meat consumption, how they only buy the „good“ meat and only seldom, but how hard it would be without cheese and so on.

Yeah, there are some preaching vegans, but those few are not the reason why some people are hating on us.