Wendi T.
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Whose Rights?
Posted by Wendi T. on May 7, 2009
Abortion is often defended in terms of the woman’s right to choose. I agree fully.
A woman has a right to make many choices regarding her own body. She can choose not to have unprotected sex. She can choose to use contraceptive medications. She can choose to abstain from sex completely. But she cannot choose to deny the rights of another for her own convenience.
Rights come with responsibilities. The free exercise of my rights stops at the point where it would interfere with your rights, and vice versa. Abortion doesn’t affect only the woman. It involves two people, the woman and her child, as any simple DNA test will show. The rights of both must be considered.
As an individual, a woman has the right to make choices about her own body. The pro-abortion argument that “a woman has a right to choose what to do with her own body,” is not an accurate description of the debate. As a parent, the woman even has the right to make choices about her child. She does not, however, have the right to end the life of her child.
Abortion advocates understand this. They intentionally pull on your emotional heartstrings with pleas of “women’s rights.” In doing so, they completely ignore the rights of the innocent child who’s life they seek to end.
lalala said
A fetus is not a human until it is viable outside the womb. Until then, it makes sense that it has no human rights. This doesn’t happen until a pregnancy is in about the 5-month stage. Five months is plenty of time in which to get an abortion. So abortion is definitely something that should remain a choice.
BILLY BOB said
no children men and women have the same rights and i think that it’s about time that some people realize that.