@masukuma, your legal penalty needs to include the man somewhere

@Intelligensia heartfelt and insightful - Are you a woman? As a man I'm slightly embarrased on reading your post

To my knowledge, there are two things which are misunderstood in such a debate;
1. When abortion is acceptable
2. When Life beggins

I would like to point out that the fact that abortion may be acceptable in certain circumstances does not mean that life doesn't start at conception. I agree that not all conceptions lead to a baby, but that doesn't nullify the fact that life beggins at conception! Now once we have that in perspective, we can therefore debate on what one should do when conception threatens the life of the woman.

Having said that, the society must come up with ways of taking care of children who are born in untoward circumstances, a programme say of adoption. The circumstances should therefore be clearly defined and an example would be Rape.

Finally, I don't agree that this whole debate should be left to women alone, it is clearly a societal debate. We only need to be reasonable and above all human when engaged in this debate.