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Again... not getting into the "is abortion right or wrong" I'm going to assume that abortion is legal and it's going to stay that way.
My problem with the current "status-quo" is that women have fought for the right to "choose" what to do with their bodies, they can at a whim choose to abort or keep the child growing inside them. BUT... those exact same women then turn around and assume it's 100% acceptable for the father to spend 20 YEARS submitting 10-20% of the work of his body to pay for the raising of this child... without ANY input into the decision making process. This is WRONG.
Woman doesn't want child, Man doesn't want child - child is aborted, everything A-OK.
Woman wants child, Man wants child - child is kept and raised by two parent who have chosen to buy into the process, everything A-OK.
Woman doesn't want child, Man wants child - child is aborted, man is left to wonder what kind of person his child would've grown up to be.
Woman wants child, Man doesn't want child - child is kept and raised and the man is FORCED by the gubberment to fork over 10-20% of his income, which is 4-8 hours per week of HIS body, or 6-12 MONTHS of his life over the 20 years that he'll get to pay for a choice the Woman made and he had ZERO input in.
Now I'd like someone to explain to me how this is fair and equitable.
IMO - ideally this choice should be a 50/50 proposition, but in the absence of women actually willing to share the choice, Men should be minimally given an equivelant choice to perform a "virtual abortion" and sign away all rights to and responsibilities for the child that the Woman has chosen to keep.
[ 02-09-2003, 08:43 PM: Message edited by: Thoran ]
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