Though abortion should be done by the consent of both spouses, I think it is a woman's right to have the final word on it since pregnancy is ultimately a condition of the female body. All other consequences affecting males are both indirect and terminable. Nevertheless, the bond between a mother and her child is virtually ever lasting.

Abortion is a very difficult decision for men too. Nevertheless, the impact it may have on a female is both much more sophisticated and is graver.

I hate to be a thread spoiler, but has anyone concidered that neither the woman or the man have the right to decide whether a child lives or dies. You are casually speaking of the blantant disregard for the sanctity of human life. Who has more of a right to end a human life?

I have spent a lot of time working on the other side of this issue (Pro Life) and you are wrong if you think many women don't regret it and that it is a big problem. It seems the woman in the famous Roe V. Wade case does herself. I don't have any fancy statistics to to back me up but I have known many women personally who deeply regret their decision. That's not to say that a vast majority have an abortion and then feel releaved but you shouldn't discount the ones who do as a small statistic.

We are talking about abortion not murdering fully grown babies. There are certain legal limits determined together with scientists. Accordingly, abortion does become illegal after a certain number of weeks required for the neural development of the fetus.

Everyday we lose millions of cells or tissues. If I were to have a child everytime I have sex with a woman, even my own modest contribution to the Earth's human population could be enermous. Transformation from life to death and vice versa is perpetual. There is no hint in nature that tells us we should multiply as much as we can. On the contrary, there are very well designed population control mechanisms in nature. Why can't one of these mechanisms be our own intelligence?

P.S. I should have used the past tense when referring to all the women that I ....

laughing at Vineyards qualification of statement...thats all

I am not entering this battle...

In Quran, the development of the fetus is described as follows in Surahs 22-23-24 and 32.
"He makes you in the wombs of your mothers in stages, one after another, in three veils of darkness."
"Then We placed him as a drop in a place of rest."
"Then of that leech-like structure, We made a chewed lump."
"Then We made out of the chewed lump, bones, and clothed the bones in flesh."
"Then We developed out of it another creature."
"And He gave you hearing and sight and feeling and understanding."
"Then out of a piece of chewed flesh, partly formed and partly unformed."
"And We cause whom We will to rest in the wombs for an appointed term."

This statement: "then we developed out of it another creature" is quite interesting, in my opinion, The Quran considers man's development in the uterus in two stages e.g a transition from subhuman into human form.

P.S. I don't consider myself light-hearted just because I might support my partner if she decides in favour of an abortion within medically and ethically proper periods. This is a legal right on my part and I don't need anyone to show me how to use my legal rights.