Other groups may have a very different perspective. Many of the abortions done in this country are in African-American women, and some have seen abortion as a racist, genocidal threat. Father s rights have not been given much weight in the debate. Because fathers do not carry or bear the child, and because our society places most of the child-rearing responsibility on the mother, a father s right to have a voice in the decision to abort his child is seldom a deciding factor ethically or legally. Paternity issues may further complicate the issue.
Some situations seem to require an abortion even for someone who generally opposes it.
For instance, a woman may have a tubal pregnancy, or may have an intrauterine pregnancy but require a hysterectomy because of cancer. For this principle to be operand, four conditions must be met. Thus, proponents of the principle of double effect would allow abortion in certain cases. Because of these different beliefs, there are positions on abortion that vary widely. Some argue that the personhood of a fetus begins at conception and that abortion is murder and never justifiable.