Abortion????

I am a woman, I know that having an unplanned pregnancy can be unnerving (I've had one myself). But how can it be legal for a woman to have an abortion without the father's consent? This does not seem fair to me. I may be a little ( or a lot) bias. My mother walked out when I was only 3 and my father raised my four sisters and I since then. He has been wonderful and we have been very well taken care of. I guess I just don't understand how the abortion laws only cover what the mother thinks and completly disreguards the father! I am pro-life but I do not judge or think less of pro-choice people, but I think it is a miscarriage of justice that men have no say in this decision. Please spare me all the "WELL A WOMAN HAS TO GO THROUGH PREGNANCY AND LABOR" talk. As I said, I know this, I went through labor not so long ago.

I know there are acceptions, such as rape and incest.

In a sense, I very much agree. If my girlfriend was thinking about an abortion, I'd like to think that I'd have some say in the matter. Of course, our relationship is such that I would have some influence, but only because she would let me.

Ultimately, if there's an irreconcileable disagreement, on which side of the line do you fall? Do you force the mother to carry through with an unwanted pregnancy, and go through labour, at the insistence of the father? Do we give that much control over a woman's body to a man? Or do you let the mother ignore the father's wishes, and abort the foetus anyways?

Given the importance we place upon a woman's control over her own body, it isn't surprising that the system has come out as it has. And in all honesty, I think it's probably better that way.

i think it should be the women's choice bc the father is supposed to be a breadwinner while the mother raises the kids and the mother (usually) brngs up the kid, not the dad. so she should choose to have one or not.

What can I say allot of women will not even say to there man that they are pregnant and just get an abortion... Because they are filled with wickedness!!! Hey True Story! Tell Obama to change that shiiiiit!

I completely agree with you. I don't understand it at all.