People's tolerance for absurd nonsense when they don't want to face the truth - like you aren't even a human being until you are born to avoid facing the truth that abortion kills human beings. Actually, that gives absurd nonsense a bad name.

Is it accurate to say that someone was "fired" who was never really there to begin with?

You, yes, YOU were the same human being as you are today when you were 5 or 1 or a few months in the womb. Different age, different characteristics and abilities, different location, but the same person. The value of your life should not depend on those things.