For the longest time I never knew where I stood with Abortion, it was always a area I wasn't sure about. But lately I have become more pro life is it? I guess being more against Abortion, perhaps it's because of the church I have been going to, and that it has changed my mind (Only because it has really made me think about abortion, where before I wasn't sure).
Now I understand it's the woman's right, it's her body and while she may able to, it doesn't mean I have to agree or think it's right to abort a child (I do agree it is her body though, but a little more on that in a second). I just don't like the idea of it really, I get it there are reasons that abortions can happen. I may know of two people who had to get abortion in my family, didn't make me love them less as they had their reasons. (And far as they know, I don't know anything about it).
Sometimes a unborn baby can be ill or make the mother really ill, and sometimes it has to be done. Now with Rape I still stand with a woman able to make the choice of aborting the child because of what happened to them. Once again it still doesn't feel right to make the child pay for the father's sin but it's not right to make a woman who is traumatized so much, to go through with it if she doesn't want to.
There is something that has always bothered me though, the way a woman thinks the father has no say at all with this. Unless it's a one night stand or a rapist, the father should get a say in it, I hate how the woman has to sound insensitive towards him, forgetting it's also his DNA. No honey it's not just your baby, it's the father's as well. Women don't like being told they don't have a right, so why can't a father have a right to say something about his DNA? (And let's not go blaming men as if they are the only ones who go on having sex and forget certain things, it takes two to tango).
I am not sure how it would be settled, but they should aleast be considered (Unless they are the one who raped them or slept with the woman as a one night stand. I am talking about couples etc) and be involved in the whole thing. It may be her body, but it's his baby as well. (Don't get me started how fathers seem to get the short end of the stick when it comes to families, but that's another topic).
I do still think it's her body though, so ultimately it is up to her to decide, but she could aleast consider the father, if he's a guy willing to commit in the decision.
So yeah, in some areas I am still two sided and trying to figure out where I would stand in the whole debate, while I am more pro life although I do believe a woman should be allowed to decide on her own, especially if it's under alarming reasons like rape or making either the baby or mother really ill.
