Conception Makes You A Mother

The pregnant woman has made a prior choice to have intercourse, a choice that brought another party into her life, a separate little individual whose rights now limit her own freedom of choice.  Choices often lead to conditions that are physically or morally irreversible.  Her choice as to what happens to and in her body should have been made earlier.  It is too late to choose for or against motherhood.  The pregnant woman is already a mother.

Robertson McQuilkin, An Introduction to Biblical Ethics, pg.320-321