Do Fathers Have a Say in Abortion and Frozen Embryos?

Scientifically human life begins when sperm and egg unite. Yet the 1991 Pennsylvania abortion case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, left the decision of whether to have an abortion entirely up to the woman. In cases involving frozen embryos, judges have given equal weight to the father's point of view. Consequently, when a pregnant woman wants an abortion at any stage in the nine-months of pregnancy the father has no say in the decision to have or not to have an abortion. However, if a woman wants to become pregnant with frozen embryos and her ex-husband opposes the decision, he almost always has a say in the decision.

Even though the law denies fathers legal rights in the abortion-decision-making process, fathers are obviously involved in the creation of new human life. Vincent M. Rue, Ph.D., writes in his article, ""The Hollow Men": Male Grief & Trauma Following Abortion," "Men’s responses to abortion are varied, like men themselves. How abortion impacts men is complicated by the decision-making that precedes the abortion. Prior to a woman aborting her child, there are at least seven scenarios of male involvement: (1) he does not know she is pregnant and she aborts without his knowledge; (2) he opposes the abortion and says so openly; (3) he knows about the pregnancy but hides his true feelings or beliefs against abortion from the woman, out of his attempt to “love” her and affirm her rights over her body; (4) he is ambivalent about abortion and simply goes along with his partner’s decision to abort; (5) he supports and encourages her decision to abort; (6) he pressures her to abort, even threatening to leave her if she doesn’t; or (7) he abandons her physically and emotionally and refuses any responsibility for her or her choices."

Rock star Steven Tyler of the band Aerosmith writes in his autobiography, Walk This Way, about his abortion experience, “It was a big crisis. It’s a major thing when you’re growing something with a woman, but they convinced us that it would never work out and would ruin our lives. … You go to the doctor and they put the needle in her belly and they squeeze the stuff in and you watch. And it comes out dead. I was pretty devastated. In my mind, I’m going, Jesus, what have I done?”



Tamrat Gebere, an Ethiopian immigrant to Canada, admitted in a 911 call to killing Aster Kassa in July of 2010. Gebrere allegedly stabbed Kassa 53 times. The couple had a long history of domestic violence which peaked when Kassa told Gebere she was pregnant in 2009. In court testimony Gebere is said to have pressured Kassa to have an abortion, but she refused. On Valentine’s Day of 2009 Kassa gave birth to a girl. Please leave an on-line comment sharing studies linking abortion and domestic violence.


Dr. Theresa Burke, psychologist, author, and founder of the Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries for post-abortive women and men, told Life News in the January 28, 2011, article, "Women Who Had Abortions: Latest Mental Health Study Bogus", “I’ve spent the last 25 years counseling women whose hearts and minds have been fractured by abortion.” Burke said, “For many women, the traumatic nature of their abortion is not fully released until some subsequent event triggers a fuller understanding of everything that has happened."

Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision which ushered in legal abortion for all three trimesters of pregnancy, was 21-years-old, carrying an unplanned pregnancy, already had one child and was trying to get a divorce. She and her lawyer, Sarah Weddington, lied by saying that she was raped. While she never did have the abortion, Texas' pro-life abortion law was  invalidated along with the laws in America prohibiting abortion.

McCorvey's and Weddington's lie has made the most dangerous place for the unborn in his or her's mother's womb! In the January 2011 document, “Abortion Statistics: United States Data and Trends,” National Right to Life Committee Education Director Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon estimates that there have been 54,559,615 abortions since the January 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion based on data from both the Centers for Disease Control and the Guttmacher Institute, a former Planned Parenthood research arm. The analysis also found that the best estimate for the current number of annual abortions in the United States — involving both the surgical abortion procedure as well as the abortion drug RU 486 — is 1.2 million. Adding another year of 1.2 million abortions to the 2011 total National Right to Life estimated based on Guttmacher and CDC figures, America has seen 55,772.015 abortions since Roe v. Wade.

Another way to look at the statistics is to say that in America every 30 seconds a baby loses his or her life through abortion. Frances Kissling, a long-time pro-choice advocate and former president of Catholics for Choice, told Time Magazine in the January 14, 2013, article "What Choice? Abortion-rights activists won an epic victory in Roe v. Wade. They've been losing ever since," "When people hear us say abortion is just another medical procedure, they react with shock . . . Abortion is not like having your tooth pulled or having your appendix out. It involves the termination of an early form of human life. That deserves some gravitas."

God says in Exodus 20:13 King James Version Bible, "Thou shalt not kill." God doesn't qualify His commandment based on age.

Alveda King, pastoral associate and director of the African-American outreach for Priests for Life and niece of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., said during her talk, "How Can the Dream Survive?" for Notre Dame High School students in September 2011 that making life choices that don't include abortion is crucial to carrying out the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision of January 1973 made it possible for women to choose to abort their babies and violate their babies' civil rights. Alveda said, "A woman has the right to choose what she does with her body, but the baby is not her body;" "Where's the lawyer for the baby? How can the dream survive if we murder the children?"

On Christmas of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. preached the following words: "Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God…Man is more than a tiny vagary of whirling electrons or a wisp of smoke from a limitless smoldering. Man is a child of God, made in His image, and therefore must be respected as such….And when we truly believe in the sacredness of human personality, we won't exploit people, we won't trample over people with the iron feet of oppression, we won't kill anybody."

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