The obvioubs reason I could think of is that I belive murder is wrong. Logically then abortion would be wrong also. I always come to the conclusion that the woman's right to control her body always trump the developing fetus right to live. I still think this is the most logical conclusion. However, I began to think that in the U.S. and many modern western countries women DO have an inalienable reproductive right. They have the right to engage or not to engage in consexual sex with another man. Is this not the ultimate definition of reproductive right? Women also have every right to take every available precaution to prevent this pregnancy i.e. (condoms, birth control, diaphrams), with the knowledge that these methonds CAN fail.
In this kind of situation any educated woman who is impregnated in a consensual sexual act (not rape) has the knowledge and implicit understanding that the act of vaginal sex has a statistical probability of getting her pregnant so therefore does the woman not have some sort of obligation to carry the pregnancy to term?
In our criminal justice system, a hypothetical person who decided to drive a 100 miles a hour through a 25 mile a hour school zone and accidentally hits a kid and kills him is still criminally negligent for murder. Likewise, I submit that a woman who choses to have sex would be negligenly responsible for a life that she created through her own actions.
Note: please dont totally flame me as I am mostly playing devils advocate and was curious to what you guys thought of this.
