Roe v Wade

It does become a woman's issue within the context of Casey which states that a woman's equality in the workplace and the world can be determinable by a pregnancy. That the ability to exercise control over their reproductive rights is crucial to equality. This is a good legal argument if it didn't involve another individual namely the unborn baby.

I completely agree that birth control is a personal choice and must be exercised and not forced. No man can say to a women "you can't use birth control or You must use birth control". But once the pregancy has occurred, then it involves another person and therefore it ceases to be a woman's preference issue and an equality issue and the dominate right is the life of the unborn child. I think the line of birth control should end at the presence of a heart beat and/or brain activity.


But even with this comes gray areas such as rape and the health of the mother. In the event of rape, the woman's ability to prevent pregency is subverted and unconsented and such they pregnency was forced into existance where it would not had the crime of rape not occurred. I can see the legal grounds and moral grounds for that pregnency to be terminated. But, as a Christian I cannot support that because of my understanding of the sanctity of life and that it is not the unborn babies fault that the mother was rape and why should this innocent victim be punished for a crime. In cases of the health of the mother, I think that this clearly falls in the favor of the woman. Her life is established and their may be people dependent on her. So this established life is more valuable than the life of the child. I also think that it should be up to the mother in case such as these. I can tell you right now I would incourage my wife to have an abortion if her life was in danger. So then the rape case come into view here with the mental health of the woman having to carry the baby full term from this horrible crime. This again is a grey area and up for debate.

So it is a woman's right issue...I just believe the right to live on the part of the vulnerable unborn member of society trumps a woman's preferences.