(December 8, 2013 at 5:46 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: If you don't want or can't afford a child, terminating a pregnancy is the most responsible thing you can do.
Women aren't baby making machines, thankfully. We have the same rights to our bodies as anyone else. A foetus has no right to our bodies if we don't give consent.
I am not saying keeping a child is necessarily the most responsible thing. I have not said that.
You do have rights, but at some point so must the fetus. If you make a choice that results in an outcome, you and you alone are responsible. You choose to have sex, and the (perhaps untended) consequence of a pregnancy. By the act, you have given consent for sperm to go into your body and thus impregnate you. That is the consent. Your actions give the consent. No action, no consent.