Yuhuh.
I always say that if the genders were flipped and woman occupied the political sphere as much as men do currently, abortion wouldn't even be considered to be a political issue at all. Not even up for debate.
It'd just be presumed to be a self-evident human right.
Men seem always to have had a strange view of the rules where they are concerned. Here's a snippet from Shakespeare's King Lear, a conversation betweent he Dukes of Kent and Gloucester.
KENT Is not this your son, my lord?
GLOUCESTER His breeding, sir, hath been at my
charge. I have so often blushed to acknowledge
him that now I am brazed to ’t.
KENT I cannot conceive you.
GLOUCESTER Sir, this young fellow’s mother could,
whereupon she grew round-wombed and had indeed,
sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband
for her bed. Do you smell a fault?
KENT I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it
being so proper.
GLOUCESTER But I have a son, sir, by order of law,
some year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in
my account. Though this knave came something
saucily to the world before he was sent for, yet was
his mother fair, there was good sport at his making,
and the whoreson must be acknowledged.
As an out-of-wedlock child myself (there's another word for that, beginning with "B"), I've always wondered how the girl he's talking about did wrong, while he -- a married man -- did not. Since he's calling his son, Edmund, "whoreson," that means he is calling his mother a whore. But of course, he can't see how he did anything wrong.
