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RE: Abortion: Your body, your choice? Or is it the child's body that you are choosing for?
If another person surgically attatches themselves to you are you not allowed to remove them?
If another person surgically attatches themselves to you are you not allowed to remove them?
The fetus doesn't surgically attach itself to the mother. Assuming it arises from a consensual act, the mother's actions have brought the child into being in this state of dependence. A more accurate parallel would be whether or not an adoptive mother would be justified in killing her infant after she agreed to take care of it. Unless both parties are completely and truly ignorant of the fact that vaginal intercourse without contraception leads to the conception of a child, both parties are aware that one of the consequences of sexual intercourse - indeed, the primary purpose of it - is the creation of a child, both parties assume the risk involved, the same way a woman adopting an infant is aware of the burden such an infant will place on her before agreeing to adopt. If it's wrong in the second case, it's wrong in the first as well.