does the father have a right to stop an abortion?

Question

if a woman is pregnant and planning an abprtion, does the father of the child have any rights to prevent the abortion from taking place?how?

Answer 1

If a child needs a kidney transplant does the father have the right to force the mother to do it?

No one has the right to force someone to undergo or not undergo any medical procedure for the benefit of another. Even the government can only imprison you for failure to treat certain contagious illnesses, they can not compel you to get treatment.

So no the father does not have the right. And the father should have discussed what would happen to an accidental pregnancy before having sex with a woman.

Answer 2

Generally no, the only way a man can prevent an abortion is if you are doing something else pre-abortion to harm the baby and he has you incarcerated for child-endangerment which he can. It's not a likely situation but I just wanted to keep you fully informed. I don't support abortion, because there is always adoption. People will do what they will regardless of what I think, best way is to not tell him in the first place if you are worried he will put up a fight.

Answer 3

Unfortunatly not. Abortion falls under Womans Rights, which includes reproductive rights. Men can only give their opinion. I personally don't think it is fair on behalf of the men. They may want to keep their child but can't because the mother doesn't want to.

I don't understand how one could abort their own child anyway. However, women can't create children on their own. They need men in order to concieve. So I think they should have some say in it. The only reason they don't is because men aren't the ones who carry or provide neutrition for the child or end up in the hospital after 9 months giving birth.

Men should have some say in it but leagally, they don't. Some may not consider this, but abortion doesn't affect just the mom or the unborn child, it affects the father too.

Answer 4

Abortion might seem the easiest way to deal with an unwanted pregnancy, but it isn't the best way. No matter what people say, abortion causes deep emotional scars. You don't just terminate a pregnancy, you end the life of a child. That tiny baby that is developing isn't just a piece of tissue, you know. The father of the baby should have a say in this. If the woman definitely doesn't want to have the baby, and if she has an abortion, she will have to deal with the emotional consequences the rest of her life - - - not only for herself, but for what she has wrongfully denied the father. I say she should have the baby and if she doesn't want to keep it, then either let the father have it to raise or both should mutually agree on adoption.

If you are asking because you are the baby's father, then if I were you I'd show her some photos of ultrasounds showing that in fact, it is more than just tissue she is getting rid of. Try to get her to go to a crisis pregnancy center - - - they offer free services for both single and married women. Just keep praying that she will change her mind. You never know what wonderful possibilities that child can accomplish or what his/her purpose in this life is.

Answer 5

I don't think they have legal rights... if you think about doctors have to sign for abortions to be done on the NHS (In UK).. By doing this they have to sign that it is in the medical interest of the mother that the abortion takes place... thus it cannot be argued by the father that she must go through the pregnancy in order to benefit him as this would 'jeopardise' the mother's health and safety.. As far as I am aware all medical policies put the health of the mother before the unborn child and so it is extremely unlikely that the father would win any case stating that she should sacrifice her health for his child...
very difficult situation.. but it is one that would need dealing with personally rather than involving the legal system.

Answer 6

In Scotland about ten year ago there was a case about this, husband did not want an abortion, wife did she already had a child by the father and felt it was too much for her. A injuction was brought against her having an abortion in scotland and under scots law. However, she skipped across the border to England and had a abortion.

Bottom line is it is the women's body.

Answer 7

In law, no; morally, that's a powerful thing for us to address in this generation. The law takes the line that the woman carries and gives birth and that she now has the right to consent to that process or to 'request' an abortion. I think that it may, in the future, be a shared decision and that the father could be there at the abortion request. I dont include in this suggesstion, pregnancies that arise from attack or abuse of any kind. Very difficult experience for all concerned, particularly as prem babies now survive from a very early stage in their foetal development.

Answer 8

At that point, he did the deed in order to impose pregnancy on the baby's mother--which could almost be considered a violation of her physical rights, or at least an attempt to cause emotional/physical harm on another person through a third party (his sperm). And contrary to what many people believe, it is physically and emotionally difficult to be pregnant, especially if the woman in question doesn't want to be pregnant to begin with.

I'm sure he could stop her from aborting--all of them illegal (like kidnapping). Ultimately, it is her body and her choice. Since he participated in the deed, he should at least support her right to make her own decisions regarding her physical well-being rather than impose his own opinions on her regardless of her emotional state.

Answer 9

Not unless he's willing to lock the woman up in a cell and watch her 24/7 throughout her pregnancy to stop her doing anything to endanger it.

Or otherwise carry the baby himself.

I mean would you really want rapists to have the right to force their victim to carry their child? Scary.

Answer 10

In the extreme you could get a court order to delay it (say she is mentally unfit to make the decision rationally) until you have the chance to get a judge to hear your argument. It is doubtfull they would ever make a woman give birth to a child she didn't want, it is her body and her right after all.
I feel for you, but as a woman i feel for the woman too.