“though for many species, this means being raped”
Sucks to be a duck. Fucking lasso-penis rapists...
In any case... uhm, no? Pregnancy is, y'know... natural. It happens. It ought to happen in nature, for the continuation of the species and evolution. It doesn't mean an individual has to get pregnant, or even fuck if she doesn't want to, but still, on a larger scale... yeah, we need us some fucking now and then.
“Female bodies respond as though it’s a parasitic invasion and try to kill the fetus.”
If only there was a flat cake with a cool latin name to prevent just that sort of behaviour in pregnancy, so a fetus could mature in vitro and not have to fend for itself mere weeks after being conceived... and if only that was called "placenta," so I could make this exact joke...
And hell, even animals that DON'T have placentas have other means of nurturing their young, such as the kangaroo who has that silly pouch on its belly.
Also, "sucks the life force?" Sorry, are you a human being on planet Earth or an elf in a Final Fantasy game?
“And many women still become permanently disabled or die from pregnancy and childbirth, which is rarely publicized.”
In greek mythology, a woman can only reach the fields of Elysium, the resting place for all heroes, if she dies during childbirth. In norse mythology, depending on the Edda being read or on how much it's been gobbled up by christian theologians yet, a woman's way into Valhalla was to defend the homestead when invaded and to die from it, or from childbirth. [SPOILERS AHEAD] One of Hemingway's masterpieces, A Farewell to Arms, ends with Frederic's lover and wife-to-be dying during childbirth. [/SPOILERS AHEAD] How much more publicized can it GET?
And, in any case, medicine marches on. Infant and mother natal mortality has been dropping in developed and developing countries every year, with new advances in science and methodology. So... no. You're just... wrong.
