That you can't see how it is a womens' rights issue is beyond me. You might disagree with the right, but that doesn't change the fact that there is a clear "right" in question --- the right to control what happens to your body. To the extent that only women get pregnant, the right to control the pregnancy is clearly a womens' rights issue.
Whether the fetus is alive (or a form of life) is a different issue and regardless of how that issue is resolved, you still need to weigh the right of the woman to control her body. One could very well say that a fetus is not a life, but the woman still can't have an abortion because the needs of society to grow outweighs the rights of the woman to control her body/pregnancy. Similarly, one could argue that even though the fetus is alive (or a form of life) the rights of the woman to control her body trumps any rights of the fetus.
To suggest that the abortion question is simply a question of whether or not the fetus is a life (or a form of life) ignores a significant part of the larger discussion.
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