Question: Why Do MEN Have ANY Say In A WOMAN'S Right To Choose ???

[moriah]

183. Eh, I'll say something that's far from PC here.

When the being growing inside a womb is wanted, it's a "child", and few ever disagree with that assessment. People who get emotionally invested in a wanted pregnancy grieve the loss in a way that is close enough to the loss of a born child that they might as well be considered the same for that purpose. Many times they are buried the same way a child would be, pictures are sometimes taken, etc. For families that are that emotionally invested, those things help them heal.

But when the thing growing inside the womb isn't wanted... we tend to use more scientific terms. I find it to be tiresome, and also find it a sign that people are uncomfortable with the rights for which they advocate. A fetus has the potential if it continues to grow and develop to be born and therefore become "a child" to you, so does an embryo, so does a fertilized egg (and technically even the sperm and egg are living even if they don't have all our DNA). It's all life. Denying that is pointless.

Pregnancy starts at implantation, ends at delivery whether unnatural or natural. That's what involves the woman, that's what involves her body, and the fact that life can't survive on its own IMHO does not trump her right to bodily autonomy any more than if a rapist HAD to rape to survive would make a woman somehow morally obligated to allow rape.