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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin
So one topic that has kind of pissed me off in my Gender and Women Studies class is birth rights. A lot of feminists believe they are entitled to have full control of their birth situation. They argue that if they get pregnant it is their decision to have an abortion, give the child up for adoption, or birth it, regardless of what the man wants or thinks.
This is fine and dandy, but if a girl gets pregnant and a man DOESN'T want the child, he still has to pay child support! So what the fuck is up with that? A man can say he wants to keep the child and have his opinion ignored while the woman gets an abortion because it's her body, her decision. But if a man doesn't want to have the child the woman can have it and make the man pay child support!
You can't have your cake and eat it...and this premise smacks of inequity, even if women bare the brunt of childbirth.
Thoughts? Am I just a crazy misogynist?
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Interesting way to put it.
I'm torn on the pro-choice pro-life thing.. Morally I'm more inclined to be pro life. If there was a law to be voted on, then I'd vote pro life over choice. But I honestly never really considered the father's opinion on the subject. lol
If its rape in any form, I think the rapist should have no say, period (Yes, if a 14 year old boy gets his 30 year old teacher pregnent, he or his family should have the same rights as a woman in the same situation). If its consensual, then I think IF the mother is considering abortion, that the father should be able to force her to have the child. And the child would be 100% under the father's custody, and the mother would have to pay the father child support.
In the cases where they both don't want the baby, then.. well, those are the cases where the government should either set it as completely the parents choice, or there should be a law forcing them to have the baby. (depending on the state)
But, moral of the story.. if either parent wants the baby to be born, it should be born, period.