You're miss the point here BlueStar. It's not a matter of a man having control over a woman's body, but instead a man having some say in the future of a child that is 50% his.

A random guy shouldn't have the right to walk up to a woman and say, "You can't have an abortion," yes, but the potential father of the baby has just as much a right over the unborn child as does the mother.

And to say that a father wouldn't have a right to sue a mother under such conditions because "It would violate her right to privacy as well as doctor-patient confidentiality" is laughable in and of itself. Privacy isn't a factor here because the child (or fetus, whichever way you want to take it) is not just the mother's, but the father's too.

For a mother to go and abort a baby without telling the father is in some ways the equivalent to having a joint checking account at a bank and having one party member terminate it without letting the other one know. The mother's ownership of her body isn't an issue here when a joint effort was made to help create the child.

And that repeated "joint-effort" or "joint-ownership" viewpoint is what you're missing in all of this and is the key reason as to why a man should have a choice in abortion.

My opinion on this subject has to take a near middle road because of the fact that the term "abortion" here is held in such ambiguous terms.

In a local setting, the man most definitely has a choice on the outcome of his unborn baby. Yes, the woman in the situation must bear the child and must go through the 9 months of development, but the man in the relationship has contributed half of his DNA to the creation of that baby. It's just as much his as it is hers, therefore the man should have some sort of input on what happens to the baby.

On a more global level though, where the morality of abortion is being debated and such, the man does not have the same right of input. In this case, he has no ownership over any of the potential babies in question and the fight is more about a woman's right to use her body as she finds fit--a natural right.

So that's where the devision lies, whether or not this debate takes place on the local or global level. If it's on the former, then I must say yes, a man has every right to "choice" that does a woman.