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I think I said this on anther thread at some point but, again, there are definitely inequities in how men and women are treated when it comes to children. The initial inequity came about, of course, when women were deemed the only ones to be able to have children. In society, though, we have to develop some way to allow for men to have a say in what happens with his child also to counteract this imbalance. It is just unfair that men, as someone else pointed out, can't force a woman either to have a baby or abort it. Once its born, she can go after him for all kinds of money, even if she AND the guy were both irresponsible in protecting themself and preventing the pregnancy. If the society is unwilling/unable or incapable to prevent people from engaging in unprotected sex, then accommodations must be made to each person when it comes to how a pregnancy and subsequent childbirth should be handled. I think if the guy really wants an abortion or does not want the child, he should not be forced to participate, financially or otherwise. If the government's position is that forcing a man to pay for an unwanted child is protecting the interests of the child, I don't buy it because the child can be even more damaged if its father reluctantly pays money and does nothing else for him or resents its mother and beats her AND THE CHILD up. I'd rather take the chance of the woman finding another father for the child (stepfather, for example) and bringing the kid up in love and peacefulness than forcing a bad father to stay in the picture. That is an extreme example, but the point mainly is that men should have their say, not only for the sake of his equal rights protection under the Constitution, but also for the best interest of the child.
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