Looks like the other thing you don t understand is the nature of the choice I think you would agree that it would be wrong to treat you the way I might treat a corpse just because if we wait a bit you will become a corpse After all your potential status is not your current status When you finally die you will cease to be a person but you re still a person now and we can t just ignore that in the name of far sightedness In the same way an embryo s potential for personhood does not constitute personhood and potential rights are not actual rights so nobody is choosing life or death for a person When a woman chooses not to become a mother it is the pregnancy that is aborted not a person The actual rights of an actual person are being recognized as primary over the potential rights of a potential person Of course if you re really against abortion like I am not just choice the real solution here is to allow comprehensive sexual education and full free access to contraception Women who don t have an unwanted pregnancy are never in the position to even consider an abortion