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There is always the question of "best for whom".  Does the right of the host disappear at the instant of conception?  In cases of rape? Incest? Birth defect?  Who gets to decide whose right takes precedence? 

In matters of a persons being secure in themselves, I have to come down on the side of woman deciding the fate of her offspring as long as it is inside her, living as a parasite in her body, and unable to live outside of her. Once viability is reached, then it becomes a person.  The early Christian church argued that only at birth did a soul enter the body and it became a person. Their reasoning was that such a huge percentage of conceptions ended in no birth that it didn't make any sense for God to instill a soul until the baby was born (viability from their perspective).  I am not a fan of abortion, but I am also not a fan of telling women what they can do with their bodies and the contents of their bodies.  It's a tough call and the only real way to solve it is for us to find better ways of preventing pregnancy.