by Huner Compton

Created on: November 25, 2010   Last Updated: November 26, 2010

I would have to say that I stand very firmly that a father HAS the right to decide the matter of abortion. Although this is a modern issue, I feel that we must look back upon our founding fathers, and their ideals that founded what America is. They founded America on the ideals that John Locke so brilliantly set to pen. He wrote one chapter, that made his entire second treatise on government relevant to why the father should have a say in abortion. In the sixth chapter he states and I quote, "But in this power the mother too has her share with the father. Nay, This power so little belongs to the father by any peculiar right of nature, but only as he is guardian of his children."

As we can well see, America is founded upon the father being the power in a family, and while this power is limited, it exists solely in the father. The reason that this power rests solely in the father is that the father has a duty. His duty is to educate, nourish and protect his child, and there are only two ways this power can be transferred or negated. One, the father dies, or two, the child grows mature and finds reason and education, and since we are debating over an unborn child, the latter is not applicable. To the former, the father is dead thus he cannot make a decision ether way. Also since a father is the voice of a child, it is his duty to create the best life possible for the child, and in some cases the best life would be to not live, thus it is the fathers responsibility, and no one else's, for the child to be aborted.

Also if a man cannot provide enough to provide himself and his spouse with proper nutrition, the child and mother who the father is providing for, would be encroching on his right to life, and liberty, as stated by the declaration of independence, and given to us by the fifth amendment. So we can clearly see that fathers not only are given sole power over the matter by our founders, there are two examples of a just cause for the father can abort the baby. Also he has just cause for the baby to be born. This baby has the right to life, which not a single soul can encroach upon unless the baby has first encroached upon their right first. Thus we can see why if the father is capable of caring for his child he is obliged without a doubt to do so, and without further comments we can clearly see the father has sole decision on the matter of abortion.

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