Question For Pro Lifers: Is It Okay To Coerce A Woman Into Keeping Her Baby?

**Smartmouthwoman** · Aug 18 2011, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by Makedde

Okay, the article I was reading used divorce as a method of coercion. In other words, threatening to divorce the woman if she kept her baby, or threatening to divorce her if she had an abortion.

What other specifics would you like provided? Is it okay to force a woman into keeping her baby? Is it okay to force her into having an abortion?

I don't believe any of those is moral because both options take the decision away from the only person who can make the choice - the woman.

That's not exactly the way things were presented in the poll since you didn't mention it was the woman's HUSBAND and FATHER OF THE CHILD who was doing the coercing.

I know things are different Down Under, but doesn't it still take two people to create a baby? Why on earth should the father have NO SAY about his own child's future? Especially when you're talking life & death???

**diamond lil** · Aug 18 2011, 10:51 AM

Quite simply because he should have no control over another person's body.

And no matter what people might call themselves, they are not fathers or mothers until their child has been born alive.

**Satura** · Aug 18 2011, 10:54 AM

For me this question deals with the greater of two evils; namely, it is better to coerce a woman or is it better to let her make her own choice, even if that choice involves what some would call the unnecessary destruction of human life? Put another way: which is more important, life or freedom from manipulation?

It seems to be the omnipresent question of quantity or quality. On one hand, you can decrease the quality of life for two individuals, and on the other hand you can maintain or improve the current quality of life for one but prevent the second from ever having the chance to make such a qualification. Are the expenses of either course of action balanced? That's impossible to say. But for me personally, I am disgusted by the idea that somebody would want to trick, fool, or cheat my mother into doing something that she doesn't want to do - sort of sounds like rape, doesn't it? And, strangely enough, rape can create babies too.

**Smartmouthwoman** · Aug 18 2011, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by diamond lil

Quite simply because he should have no control over another person's body.

And no matter what people might call themselves, they are not fathers or mothers until their child has been born alive.

And their child can't be born alive if they abort it. Rather a catch 22, huh?

**Cady** · Aug 18 2011, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by Smartmouthwoman

I know things are different Down Under, but doesn't it still take two people to create a baby? Why on earth should the father have NO SAY about his own child's future? Especially when you're talking life & death???

It's a potential child. Must a wife give her permission for a vasectomy?

**perdidochas** · Aug 18 2011, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by Cady

It's a potential child. Must a wife give her permission for a vasectomy?

Most of the time, yes. Most married men have to have their wife sign a form before they can get a vasectomy. It's not law, but it's common practice for urologists.

**Cady** · Aug 18 2011, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by perdidochas

Most of the time, yes. Most married men have to have their wife sign a form before they can get a vasectomy. It's not law, but it's common practice for urologists.

It's a policy for some doctors, not a law.