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She shouldn't be forced to, but her choice is whether or not to conceive the baby. Consider that while you can't be forced to donate an organ, once you choose to do so, you can't later demand that the organ be taken out of the recipient and put back in you.

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She shouldn't be forced to, but her choice is whether or not to conceive the baby.

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the concept of rape? That's without getting into much more controversial points concerning how very much female income is frequently in some way tied to sex (among other issues).

> Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the concept of rape?

Even if you wake up in a bathtub of ice and learn that someone harvested one of your kidneys, you still aren't allowed to kill the recipient to take it back.

Irrelevant and moves the goal posts.

Just because pregnancy is a possibility of sex does not mean it is a choice. By that logic, getting an STD is a “choice” because its a possibility of sex too, even if the other person lied about having one, broke the condom, etc.

If you chose to stay out in the sun all day without sunscreen, isn't it fair to say that you chose to get a suntan? In both cases, it's a direct, foreseeable, obvious, and common consequence of the action that was a choice.

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