Re: A revision of the OP and some new questions
...and just to flesh out the who has the right to terminate and incubator thing a little further:
I believe (as a system) that it is preferable to have the fewest, most immediate, and most necessary people making custodial decisions of life and death. The are many reasons for this. 1) Practicality; a difficult decision is easier to make if it is made by one person. 2) The person most affected by a decision should be empowered to make it; 3) in the case of life or death, the more people you involve in the decision, the propensity for emotional consequences increases dramatically the more people you involve in the decision.
In the case of a fetus, nature has naturally vested the life of the fetus in the mother's hands. I see no reason whatsoever to disturb this. Now, if the mother chooses to remove the fetus and put it in an incubator and sustain the life, then PERHAPS this brings the rights of the natural father into play, but I am not really convinced that this is automatically so.
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