I don't have a problem with abortion as long as it is done before the pregnancy progresses beyond a certain point. A lot of the problem with this is debate over that certain point. I am not one of those people that believes that LIFE is magically imbued as soon as sperm hits egg. In my opinion, the fetus is merely flesh, the same as any organ in your body, until the electrical impulses begin in it's brain. It is impossible in my opinion to view anything as 'living' until you have that criteria. There is TIME in this whole process of creating a child. It's not just a candy magical moment of an instant HUMAN BEING!

I believe the father should have a say but at the same time pregnancy and giving birth is no small matter at all. It's very stressful on the body and not for just a short period of time, for 9 whole months and then you have to actually birth it. If a man ever had to truly consider what it's like to carry a child and give birth he would not ever think he had the right to 'demand' a woman do so, no matter who's child it is.

And I'm not just saying this as someone who has never experienced anything similar. My brother went through this with his girlfriend. I know it broke his heart but he would never have dreamed to have the right to demand she have the child.

Abortion will never be easy, I think most women's instinct is too strong for that. But we live in an age where we can survive on reason, as well as instinct, and must find the balance in it. Each person must find that balance in themselves. (And make their own decisions without the government making them for them.)