Why do some women feel that the child's Father does not have a right in the decision of an abortion?

Question

I mean, when she gave her body to her boyfriend/husband for planting, didn't she also give rights to her body until the total end of the harvest season?

Why are you called Red Queen?

Answer 1

i totally agree with you i mean he kind of had a part at the beginning of it

Answer 2

What do you do in situations where the mother and father disagree?

One of them has to take precedence.

Suppose the male wants to keep the child, but the female does not want to have it in her for 9 months. No problem right, just take it out of the female and put it into the male? Oh wait, that won't work. Guess it has to be her call.

How about the other way around.
The father wants to abort, but the mother does not. The medical procedure obviously can't be done without the consent of the female, so it ends up being her call too.


As much as I'd like there to be a way for the father to have some input in the decision, there's no practical means of giving a father any rights in the decision.

Answer 3

Your question leads to another--- if a mother can legally kill her unborn baby, then that baby must have no rights as a citizen under the US Constitution. If an unborn baby is killed by the father, then the same logic must apply. In the state of California, therefore, Scott Peterson only killed one person, and cannot legally be put to death under California law.

But yet he's on death row, as if unborn babies actually have rights. So where's the ACLU on this? If Scott is put to death, that means that the unborn Conner had rights, which really complicates the issue, because it means that killing an unborn baby is murder.

This is a serious contradiction that didn't exist back in the times when abortion was illegal. There is an inconsistent misuse of logic going on here.

Methinks we, as citizens, should vote on this rather than leaving it up to judges or a bunch of lawyers. So far they have yet to solve the dilemma or the controversy, and they've spent plenty of our money haggling the issue without resolution.

Answer 4

When two people lay down only one of them can get pregnant.
The guy gets bored or tiried and he walks away. But women don't have that option. For her it is a life sentence. For him it is a few pictures and something to tell his boy friends.
When I went into the VOTECH and got further schooling. There wasn't any unwed fathers. The class was full of unwed mothers.
who were worried about how to raise this child alone.
How to get enough education to get a good job that would also pay a baby sitter and still have enough to pay the rent.
Who will watch the baby while I go to school.
I saw a bunch of them and never once did I see a father with a problem. Trust me it is a mothers responsibility to raise a child and with most marriages even breaking up the children always go to the mother. Before having kids even in a marriage you better have a good job.

Answer 5

It is genetically half his,
however, there is a group of men who want rights to FORCE women into getting abortions, since they will have to pay for child support.

This is why it is always left soley up to the mother,
I always find it sad hearing about stories where
a woman went behind the man's back to get an abortion, assuming he wouldn't want it,
then when she told him after the fact, he actually wanted it.

Also married women can get one and their husbands can do nothing to stop her.



Edit: YOu know, the only things I'm finding bigoted and insulting: Even unwarrented personal insults directed at Midge, when that's what you've resorted to, you've lost the debate, period.

I have to say, some of the most ignorant and ill informed points of debate ALWAYS come from the 'choice' to kill side.
and I'm an atheist.

Answer 6

I dont know about giving her body until harvest (not sure where you are coming from) but I believe that if a woman is comfortable wnough with a man to get pregnant then she should have respect for him and share this life changing decision. An easier way to handle it is to use the pill and a condom. That way nobody gets hurt.

Answer 7

In the end it is a woman that has to carry the baby. No one should force you to do anything you don't want to do with your body, emotions and life. Just think of how a man would react if you thought you had the right to force hime to do something with his body he didn't want to do. Wouldn't go over well would it. Although I have my own personal opinions on abortion, I believe no one gets the right to tell a woman what do do with her body, even the father. (By having sex you are not handing over rights to your body as you are still in control of what happens)

Answer 8

Um...a man has never had to give birth, carry a child for nine months, or go through the agony of having to deal with people's reaction to her pregnancy.

HE doesn't have deal with anything but where he put his penis. That's it. You say that it's not fair, but you're also assuming that he's still playing a part in the pregnancy.

I know plenty of men who have supported their partner's decision to have an abortion. I know plenty of men who could have cared less.

Until you are in a place where abortion is a REAL option, you can't speak. I hate people who lecture about abortion yet have never had to deal with a surprise, unwanted, or dangerous pregnancy.

The way you're saying it, no man has rights over me for 9 months while I'm pregnant. NO ONE. You're assuming that every pregnancy is a happy pregnancy.

Answer 9

When a man is physically able to carry a baby for 9 months of pregnancy THEN he has every right in the decision making.

Answer 10

I think that's awful that a woman will have an abortion w/out consulting her boyfriend or husband. It says in the Bible that when you are married, your body belongs to your husband and his belongs to you. And if you're single, you shouldn't be having sex anyway.

Answer 11

Nope, she isn't "giving" her body to anyone. If a man doesn't want to deal with with the risk of a woman getting pregnant and having an abortion, he should wear a condom, no matter what. I don't condone abortion, but MY body , MY uterus, MY right to choose.
Do you also think that if a man has had sex with a woman, he now has the right to "rape" her whenever he wants until "harvest"?. (because that is what it would become if he has "rights" to her body against her will!)