As it is most women, along with their partners, have always had the most basic of these rights.

For example, they have always had:

1) The right to decide whether or not to engage in sex.
(Note: A positive decision here should be made with the knowledge that a pregnancy very well might result and the couple should carefully consider whether or not they are willing and prepared to accept the full responsibility of that new life.)

2) The right to decide whether or not to use some form of contraception. (If they make the decision to do so, they then have:

3) The right to decide which of the numerous products, currently available, they wish to use. (No product, however, is 100% safe and they should be aware there is still the possiblility that their actions may result in pregnancy.)

... Once a pregnancy has been initialized, there are no longer just the rights of the 'two partners' to be considered in, what now becomes, a matter of life and death for the silent, non-consenting, participent.

Make no mistake! Every baby nestled within a woman's body is a real live person with no less capability of feeling pain than either of the two people it took to create it... simply because they reside outside the womb. Ask any reputable OBGYN and they'll tell you that one of the first things to develope on a baby is the central nervous system... where both pain and pleasure are felt.

Roxie Sounds Off

How many of us have been shocked or appalled when we've read or heard stories comming out of a so called 'under-developed country' where infanticide is still being practiced on baby girls... simply because she had the misfortune of being born first in a culture that demands the first born child in any family to be a 'male'? What kind of reason is that to kill an innocent child? None whatsoever! Why here, in the United States, we would never allow such a barbaric practice to take place, would we? Or, would we? Yes, I'm afraid we not only allow it... we take that practice to new heights. In this civilized country of ours we require no reason what so ever to kill a defenseless child. Want to know something else? Our government not only condones this form of murder by passing laws to make it legal... they use our tax dollars to pay for it! It doesn't matter where you stand on the issue of abortion... your hard-earned tax dollars are going to be spent on them. Willing, or not, you will pay to end the lives of thousands of children simply because a mother has decided she doesn't want it, can't afford it, the timing is inconvienant, or the baby may be bron imperfect. There are people out there who argue that this is the only humane way to deal with any of these circumstances. Why bring a child into this world if it will be forced to live in an envirenoment where it is not wanted or if it won't recieve every advantage our materialistic society has to offer? What could be worse than that? I'll tell you what's worse. The irresponsible, selfish desires of any human who would end the life of another human with no less thought given than one would give to having a wart removed! You can argue that there are cases in which the life of the mother is in jeopardy, or the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest... and you'd be right. These things, unfortunately, do happen. But out of all the abortions that take place in this country those particular situations only account for about 1 tenth of 1 percent! That comes out to approxamately 600 out of the 6,000,000 abortions preformed every year here in the United States of America. So what excuse is being given for the other 5,999,400 ? What makes this even worse, in my opinion, is that these atrocities are being preformed by people in the medical field who call themselves doctors! Or has the ethical and moralistic Hippocratic Oath, they once swore to, been replaced by the Hypocritic Oath?
Dr. James Dobson recently pointed out that, when we see a pregnant woman, we aren't likely to make the comment, "Oh, I see you're going to have a fetus!" Or when we see a newborn... how many of us would exclaim, "What a darling little neonate!" Why is it that an 8 inch trip down the birth canal changes how many people view the worth of a child? Countless court cases have sprung up over the years in which an expectant mother has been injured in an accident, so severly, that she has lost her baby and brought charges against her assailant for the loss of the child. In other cases dual counts of murder or manslaughter have been levied against persons causing the loss of life to both mother and unborn child.
Simply put, our government and members of pro-abortion groups are trying to tell us that a fetus is a baby... and thereby a valuable human being... if it's wanted by the expectant parent(s), but if it isn't wanted it's just a blob of tissue!
When Christians dare to speak up, we are accused of trying to impose our morals on others! Here's a newsflash: They aren't our morals... They're GODS! HE and HE alone is '...the author of all life...'. Who are we, then, to cancel a book before it even goes to publication?
Which brings to mind a favorite story of mine, about a young teen-aged girl who found herself pregnant... and not by the man she was engaged to marry. This happened long ago during a time in which it was customary to stone to death any woman caught in the act of adultry. But the young man had faith in his bride-to-be and in his God so, instead of allowing her to be killed, he took her away and after the child was born, he married the young girl. The young man provided no less for the child that wasn't his then for the children he and the young woman went on to have together. The young man's name was Joseph and his wife's name was Mary and you can read all about their first born child in the New Testament of the Holy Bible. '... His name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before He was concieved in the womb.'
I, for one, am grateful to Joseph for his faith, for without the birth of Christ, neither I nor anyone else, would have had any hope of salvation!