I was talking with someone a few days ago who raised a very interesting point about anti-abortionists. The fondness they have of referring to themselves as "pro-choice" promotes the concept that they want to let the fetus have a 'vote' in its termination.
Well, guess what: it's totally irrelevant.
Why? Because of that thing called the "age of majority". No, it's not a computer roleplaying game, it's the age which, by law, a person becomes able to make their own decisions. Some places it's 16. Others it's 18. Still others it's 21. Nowhere is it within the first nine months. Up to that point in time, the decision legally rests with the parent or guardian of the underaged child. So even if you regard a fetus still developing and unable to exist outside the womb without medical miracles as a child, it still legally has its decisions made for it by its parents.
The point of anti-abortion is to make up the parents mind for them - by legislation and making abortion illegal if possible - and try to somehow claim it's all "giving the unborn a voice". But when a baby is born it still doesn't have any legal rights to have its voice heard until it reaches the age of majority.
Just another example of the sham that is anti-abortionism, and what Sarah Palin and John McCain are fighting to force on parents throughout the United States.