So I take it from your remarks, PL, that you are pro-abortion. Please correct me if I am wrong on that count.
A child growing "in someone else's body" as you say, didn't get there by immaculate conception. That child, as you rightfully termed it, has a mother AND a father. The child has a right to life, but until he or she is a legal adult, decisions about the welfare of the child should rightfully belong to both parents. Of course, I am assuming that people will behave rationally, which I should have learned by now, is all too frequently no longer the case.
The whole notion of a child being best off with the mother came from the underlying premise that no one in the world would fight to protect the child like it's mother, so strong was the bond between them. The fact that a woman would fight for the "right" to kill her child at the point where it is the most vulnerable and most dependent upon her for nurture and sustenance is an abandonment of that natural bond, and in my opnion, a father who wishes to save his child from death at the hands of its own mother is by definition a more suitable parent and should have the right to not only save, but raise, his child.
Beautifully put!