There are four separate, but overlapping parameters that inform an answer to this question and they are:
the moral the legal the philosophical the religious
Morally, if the intention of both concerned in sexual intercourse was to create a child, then the conception is an agreed event and both have a moral obligation to take into account the others wishes in terminating the pregnancy, provided there are no other complimenting issues such as the health of the fetus, the health of the mother or the father. However, if the conception is unplanned by both or either of the parents, or if the conception has resulted from an illegal event, then morally the mother has the right to choose whether or not to carry the pregnancy to term.
In law, in some countries, abortion is legal within certain specified parameters. Where these parameters are met the law in most countries allowing abortion recognises the mother as having the sole right to decide issues involving her own body.
Philosophically the argument turns around the issue of ownership in the sense that the organism owning the product of organic activity (the organism - the woman, owns the product of her organs - egg cell, fallopian tube and uterus)has the right to decide on abortion. The philosophical, "test," for this is provided by the fact that the organism (woman) can spontaneously abort a fetus.
The religious parameter causes individuals who adhere to certain religious beliefs the most searching question to have to resolve in that those religions disallow abortion of any form at any time post conception or restrict the act of abortion to situations where to continue the pregnancy would risk death or serious health complications for the mother. Within this parameter there is no provision for the father's views.
In my opinion, after a sexual act is agreed by both male/female that they both have made a choice to take that chance and do not have a right to ack as god and kill a gift of god, we all know that intercorse was for the purpose of child birth, some how the goverment has changed that the killing is ok when they say so, in any of gods books says tho shall not kill, but who wrote it, the goverment or who, I've yet to meet this god or see proof he is real but, everything that's in the books there happening, so I am total against a death of a child that has no choice to start creating life because a person made a mistake , please don't send me to jail for pulling the trigger I didn't mean to, 25 to life, just because studies say that a child in early stage of birth don't know of feel to know the difference, but how do they know are they that child, no its call population control, the goverment has f--ked up our planet by doing what they thought was good for it, and now see that they were wrong, and need to kill as many people they can, because the earth can't regrow and fix its self to give us what we need to live and soon well bye bye us and that's the truth why the goverment allows abortion,
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