Abortion and the stance you take?

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by DZHBrown
I don't think it's an issue about women's rights. If it was consensual sex, then it is as just as much a man's issue as it is a woman's. If we can slap a man with all kinds of child support once the child is born, then they should have some right to what is equally their child before it is born. We don't have the right to take a child away from its father when it's born, so we shouldn't beforehand, either.

I'm not sure how it's just as much a man's issue as it is a woman's. The man doesn't have to carry the baby for nine months. He doesn't have to deal with the irreversible changes to his body and emotions. He doesn't have to deal with the emotional scars of adoption or abortion. He CAN just run off and not pay child support if he wants to. There aren't a bunch of single dads out there trying to raise kids on their own because their wives ran off.

Although personally I think that if a guy can prove that he told his girlfriend that he would want her to get an abortion if she got pregnant (hmmm, sex contracts, anyone?) and that he would pay for half of the abortion, I DON'T think we should be able to force him to pay child support. Just as I think it's unfair to force a woman to support a child she knew she didn't want, I don't think it's fair to do the same thing to the men.