April the Giraffe

Hi friends!
Unless you live under a rock, there is a good chance you've heard about April the Giraffe at the Animal Adventure Park in New York. April is currently pregnant with her fourth calf and due any time now. The park has set up a live webcam feed so people can check in and see when she has the baby. If you're anything like everyone else on the internet, chances are you have been watching obsessively. Everyone loves this giraffe and her caretakers, Cory and Alyssa. It's getting a little out of hand, but seeing everyone obsess over a pregnant giraffe is far preferable to a lot of the political junk posted elsewhere on the internet.
As much as I am loving watching this sweet giraffe and seeing everyone's reactions to her, it is raising an important question in the back of my mind. Why is it that when an animal at a zoo is pregnant, we obsess over it and anxiously await the arrival of the baby, but when a human gets pregnant people act like it's not a huge deal and even give the mother the option to kill her child if she does not want to be a mother?
A priest friend of mine pointed this out, and he even pointed out how people are acknowledging that April's baby is indeed a giraffe, but when a human is pregnant, the baby is referred to as a clump of cells with no value. Why is this unborn giraffe considered a baby, but a baby human isn't? Seems a little odd, doesn't it?
I am in no way trying to degrade the value of the baby giraffe. Heck, I'm watching the live feed just as obsessively as everyone else. I just think that if we're going to be excited about baby zoo animals and treat them with respect and dignity, we should be doing the same for the baby humans.
If you would like to hop on the bandwagon and watch April with the rest of us, you can do so here.