Why is abortion a woman's rights issue instead of a fetal rights issue? Isn't the baby the one being deprived

Question

of life, liberty, and property without due process?

Answer 1

Because a woman can be heard, she has a voice. A fetus has no voice. Ever hear of a fetus having the ability to defend itself.

I myself wonder why men who impregnate women... any man for that matter.... doesn't seem to care that they have no rights in the issue.

Answer 2

I don't believe in abortion myself. But if a Woman wants to make that choice, it is her body that has the fetus.
Now when is a fetus a Human? This has been the root of the debate for a long time.
And what about all of the children in this world now that are being deprived of life, with liberty, and property without due process. They are all over most are starving. If the pro lifers, such as yourself are so concerned about children, why are you not making the ones alive the issue?
Also it is a Women's right because it has been to the Supreme Court, decided, Wade vs Roe. Quit kicking a dead horse.

Answer 3

Pregnancy is a unique situation, one in which we ask a woman to risk her life and her health for another potential human. It is to assume a woman is only a vessel for childbirth, and not a sentient human being in her own right. All too often pro lifers feel that the woman has no rights at all, but that they can tell her whats right for her at any stage of life. Fact is, no matter how you dress it up, a woman who wants to have an abortion will, just as they did when it wasn't legal. You can't very well keep a woman in prison until delivery to make sure she doesn't use a knitting needle on herself. So the choice has been safe and legal, or let her die or force her to bear children. I trust women to know if they can be a mother at a particular point in their lives, I am dismayed also by the fact that there is an idea out there that getting pregnant should be some sort of punishment for sex. Yet women who aren't ready for children or married women with as many children as they can afford, financially or emotionally shouldn't be "punished" for having sex.

Answer 4

If the unborn fetus is not considered a human being, then it follows that it would have no rights.

The real question here is when does the unborn fetus become a human being?

In my estimation, the fetus is a human being for almost all of the pregnancy, which means it has all of the rights of the woman, and even a few more, since it can't defend itself in any way and is entirely dependent on other human beings to protect it.

Answer 5

Yes. And the courts agreed with you. That's why late term abortion aren't allowed. The question was at what point did the fetus become a live baby and protected by the constitution. The answer was the point at which the heart started beating and blood was delivered to the brain.
To settle that question they used the reverse of the point of death. In the fetus, until blood reaches the brain it's not alive, at least in the eyes of the law. Most of us don't agree with that.

Answer 6

It has to do with control. Who controls the woman's body? Her beliefs or beliefs determined by the State. It is easy to speak of this in these high sounding moral terms but easy, also, to think of the consequences of trying to force women to carry babies they can't or don't want. Self induced abortin attempts, unsafe or non sterile abrotions, back to the dark alleyways, the criminalization of a difficult personal decision.

The bottom line for me is simply this: I don't want the government in the enforcement of anti abortion laws. We are not the Taliban nor the Nazis nor a theocracy. Personal responsibility puts the decision in the hands of the woman, not the State.

Answer 7

no, because a fetus can't think, reason, interupet feelings, or form memories until after the 12th week (but before the 24th, I forget the actual week. I'm leaning toward 14, but don't quote me)

thus it has no rights. its not alive, human, or a citizen. and parents are allowed to make medical choices for their kids either way- if you want to call a fetus a baby.

why is everyone so concerned about some cells that may or may not one day develop into a person?

Answer 8

Because the entire issue revolves around when life begins and at what point the baby becomes a human life. The left will tell you that the fetus is not a person until birth, therefore, as far as they see it, it's nothing more than a part of the mother's body. According to the left (or at least those that support partial birth abortions) the baby is not a person until more than 3 inches have been delivered (3 inches being the amount of the baby they pull out before severing the spinal cord.)

Answer 9

There are so many things that can go wrong before birth. A baby is not a viable being until it is born and doing well on it's own (has all it's parts, breathing air instead of fluid, eating, heart beating normally, moving, etc.) (libs will eat me for that! Nyuk!)

Answer 10

Because a fetus has no rights. It is very possible for a woman to suffer from an unwanted pregnancy - an unborn child is not going to suffer by not being born. Only a person that believes in a soul could believe in something as stupid as fetal rights.