'''"A woman's right to choose"''' is a deliberately confusing slogan used by liberals to justify [[elective abortion]]. It combines in a tricky way the concept of choice as a "women's prerogative" with the general idea that adults should be free to make their own private medical decisions.
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'''"A woman's right to choose"''' is a slogan used by liberals to justify [[elective abortion]]. It combines the concept of choice as a "women's prerogative" with the general idea that adults should be free to make their own private medical decisions.
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Both of these concepts assume that abortion is not a decision that affects the fate of another [[human being]]. One flaw with this argument is that the fetus is a human being with its own soul and unique DNA. In reality, a woman's "right to choose" significantly affects at least three human beings: the mother, the child, and the father of the child, who is not given the right to choose.
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Both of these concepts assume that abortion is not a decision that affects the fate of another [[human being]]. One flaw with this argument is that the fetus is a human being with its own soul{{Citation needed}} and unique DNA. In reality, a woman's "right to choose" significantly affects at least three human beings: the mother, the child, and the father of the child, who is not given the right to choose.
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It is opposed by social [[conservatives]] who regard themselves as [[pro-life]].
It is opposed by social [[conservatives]] who regard themselves as [[pro-life]].
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It is one of the few sayings in English where a sentence is incomplete: "a woman's right to choose." Choose what? The answer, of course, being the death of a child in the womb.