Attack at Planned Parenthood Clinic

[Angrboda]

That is why I support the right of the woman to insist that the man remove all traces of his offending penis .. including the drib that has hijacked one of her eggs.

...and the issue I have with this argument is that the "drib" you speak of isn't part of the man anymore, it's an entirely separate form of life, an entirely separate human being, and therefore it has human rights. It didn't ask to be put into the womb, it's entirely innocent of any events leading up to its creation, so I don't find the argument that the woman not wanting it there is a valid reason for denying it the right to life.

Rights are extended to persons by the society in which they live. If our society doesn't extend the right to life to this potential person, then they don't have that right, and historically, that right has not been granted to the fetus. You can assert on one side that you believe it has that right by virtue of it being a 'human being', and the other side can equally as rationally deny it on the grounds that the fetus is not a person. Nothing is resolved by a battle of "because I said so." Whether the right extends to the fetus is determined by the collective will of the people, and they have decided it doesn't.