Now see, I'll come out and say that this is pure sexist rhetoric. As a male, my DNA is not worth the opinions as to whether or not a woman decided to possibly mutilate her body irreparably, While abortion is an extremely catastrophic operation, no man should have a say whether or not a woman has the right to make this decision.
By this token, you are saying that a **** victim can not abort without the consent of her rapist, or a dying woman who happens to fall out of favor with her impregnator has to die because the man thinks that, children being the future and all, it's okay for the woman to die just so the infant can survive and the man gets the best of both worlds.
If I impregnate a female type person and the relationship goes sour there are two options available, according to the laws of the land.
1) The female of the species decides to keep the baby and furthermore has the right to file for a paternity suit, thus making me responsible for my actions. I have no choice.
2) The female of the species decides to have an abortion, thus leaving me out of the equation and taking the life of an unborn baby (the very life who is truly in a life and death situation).
Why does the outcome of the baby have to determine whether I am liable or not? Why does my contribution have diametrically opposed actions, depending upon the outcome of the baby?
Why does the baby not have a choice when he or she is the most affected by the outcome?
Why is an unborn baby referred to as an unborn baby when the baby gets to live and referred to as a fetus or tissue when its outcome is death?
Why does a doctor turn a blind eye to the hippocratic oath and render it a hypocrytical oath when he or she performs an abortion?
Why isn't an umborn baby considered life when the definition of life is:
Definitions
Conventional definition: The concensus is that that life is a characteristic of organisms that exhibit all or most of the following phenomena:[8][9]
1. Homeostasis: Regulation of the internal environment to maintain a constant state; for example, electrolyte concentration or sweating to reduce temperature.
2. Organization: Being composed of one or more cells, which are the basic units of life.
3. Metabolism: Consumption of energy by converting chemicals and energy into cellular components (anabolism) and decomposing organic matter (catabolism). Living things require energy to maintain internal organization (homeostasis) and to produce the other phenomena associated with life.
4. Growth: Maintenance of a higher rate of synthesis than catabolism. A growing organism increases in size in all of its parts, rather than simply accumulating matter. The particular species begins to multiply and expand as the evolution continues to flourish.
5. Adaptation: The ability to change over a period of time in response to the environment. This ability is fundamental to the process of evolution and is determined by the organism's heredity as well as the composition of metabolized substances, and external factors present.
6. Response to stimuli: A response can take many forms, from the contraction of a unicellular organism to external chemicals, to complex reactions involving all the senses of higher animals. A response is often expressed by motion, for example, the leaves of a plant turning toward the sun (Phototropism and chemotaxis.
7. Reproduction: The ability to produce new organisms. Reproduction can be the division of one cell to form two new cells. Usually the term is applied to the production of a new individual (either asexually, from a single parent organism, or sexually, from at least two differing parent organisms), although strictly speaking it also describes the production of new cells in the process of growth.