Abstract
From one viewpoint of moral philosophy, the concept of "self-determination"is "the absence of restraint by other people and the ability to choose between alternative courses of action." According to this viewpoint, genuine "self-determination"in the case of abortion means that a women has the choice whether to have a baby or not and can choose not to have a baby. One must distinguish genuine "self-determination"from the inevitable decision. It is not obvious that a woman's right of "self-determination" takes in any case precedence over a fetus's right to live. The woman's right doesn't include the right to kill the fetus that is able to survive outside the mother's body. On the other side only the woman's consent can give the right to use the mother's body to the fetus that isn't able to survive outside the mother's body. I think that the woman is allowed to give the consent when her pregnancy is realized.
