Abortion is the hot-button issue of the day - again. Ignoring it and questions people don’t like won’t make it go away. Please refrain from reading things into this post concerning my own beliefs when not specifically stated. Valid and relevant counter arguments are welcome while debate as an exercise can change ones perspectives and understanding - hopefully for the better for everyone concerned.
It’s a fact of life depending on location, how the mutual agreement to engage sexually with anyone, opens the door for legal proceedings with or without merit depending on the truth of the matter. While either party has the sovereign right to refuse the other’s sexual advances for any reason whatsoever - it’s still a fact of life and human biology that some of us are born female without having any say in the matter, and if their bodies develop naturally most females will become capable of conceiving, carrying and bearing children. For most women this fact can’t be changed without human interference, either intentional or accidental, and the same is true when it comes to men impregnating woman. The overriding and overwhelming physical difference between what nature, and or God if anyone prefers, subjects men and women to as a result of pregnancy is that the woman is forced or privileged, depending on her sentiments, to carry and birth the child.
That’s all fine and dandy according to nature and/or God if anyone prefers, but there seems to be a double standard when it comes human laws and who is allowed to make the decision in cases where women want the sovereign right to abort or not abort a fetus. With that sole right, if I understand it correctly, women are choosing to legally, financially and emotionally bind a man against his will in numbers of cases, to something he may not have the financial ability or will to support - potentially ruining his life in the same way some women consider their life ruined with the event of an unwanted child.
In the name of equal decision making rights, should the law allow men to say they don’t have the means or the desire to support a child financially or otherwise while demanding the woman abort their child - the same as she has that right to abort their child with her sole decision? Perhaps the law should allow him to exercise that choice to have the fetus aborted in order to exercise control over the course of his life; and if she chooses to keep the child as her sole right then that would constitute her choice to accept full responsibility to raise the child without forcing him to support her decision financially or otherwise which is against his will?
Can anyone explain why a woman should have the legal right to make the sole decision to abort or not abort, when her choice can legally bind a man while denying him an equal choice and equal sovereignty over his life’s entanglements as a result?