QuarkMoon:
Because it's not just her child. Until women are able to have children asexually, the man who helped create that baby has just as much say in the future of that fetus as she does.
So, where the father agrees to the abortion, it would be permissible, in your view? That would cover a reasonable portion of cases.
What about where the father is no longer around? (The relationship is over, or there never was a relationship in the first place.)
And why not? If a child is so unwanted that the women will resort to abortion, why not use both so accidental pregnency is an even smaller possibility?
You don't seem to get it. Very few woman take the deliberate attitude "I'm going to have sex. I don't want to get pregnant, but I won't use any contraception. If I get pregnant, I can always have an abortion."
If abortion was a simple process, a few more women
might take that view (though I doubt it). As it is, abortion is a very difficult process in many ways. In many cases, it is not even readily accessible as an option.
Do you really believe that women who have unwanted pregnancies get pregnant deliberately, or recklessly? You're obviously a male who has not talked to many (or any?) women about this.
Does that responsibility not fall on the consensual partners? Are they not accountable in the slightest?
Often, in practice, they are not held accountable. I agree with you entirely that that is a bad thing.
And this is somehow worse than terminating and not giving the fetus a chance at life? How do you figure? I would think a chance at a fulfilling life is better than termination.
Again, you ignore the fact that there are competing interests at work. You concentrate on the interests of the potential child to the exclusion of everything else.
Adoption. Adoption. Adoption.
Unplanned pregnancies are encumbering, as I said. A pregnancy can stop a girl from going to school or university. It can stop a woman from working.
And did you ignore the emotional issues I raised above? Putting a child up for adoption after undergoing an entire pregnancy can be extremely difficult for woman. They can have lasting feelings of regret and loss as a result.
Bottom line once again: For some women, adoption is the right decision; for others, it isn't. Each woman facing an unplanned pregnancy is the best judge of her own situation, and should have the right to decide for herself.