I was watching Law&Order and there was a similar case. If a woman knows who the father is and he agrees he ho the father, is there any law in which the father can stop an abortion?
2007-07-06 01:44:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Unfortunately, no. Father's rights have a long way to go. A man can be out preparing a nursery in his house and working overtime to support the baby, and then half a year into it, the mother can get an abortion and not even tell her husband.
That's just the way it is.
People keep saying that it's the mother's body and they have a point, but to them I have to ask: is it also the father's baby?
I think laws could be developed to keep rapists, etc. from exploiting the situation. If the answer is simply that women should do whatever they want (even to threaten the man with, "If you don't do XYZ, then I'll abort the baby"), then I think people haven't thought about the question with enough depth.
2007-07-06 02:05:08 · answer #1 · answered by artsy_lovely_lady 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I wouldn't know. I don't think I would abort the child. I think I would give it to a nice family who has the money to take care of it. But if she wanted to keep it herself then she needs to hold sole responsibility for the child, but this should mean that the father have no legal right to see his child or any rights to this child. If he thinks that in the future he'd want to see his kid then pay for the child now, if not then don't pay. Girls use child support as a tool, which is bad. Why force a guy to stay who doesn't want to stay? Why is a girl going to stop him from living a life that he wants to live just because she wants to have a child. A girl should tell the guy in advance so that way they can have a discussion on whether or not to get an abortion. On a side note: Women have been tring for rights for abortion, and yet many young guys, Majority of guys whether have the girl get an abortion. Then why keep fighting over abortion?
2016-05-19 21:41:16 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To answer the only legal question you asked, "is there any law in which the father can stop an abortion" the correct answer is yes.
Now, since I am an attorney and I have answered no on previous ocassions, I'm sure some of those who answered will be confused. However, look at the exact question being asked then study case law.
You'll soon find the CORRECT answer.
2007-07-06 03:23:00 · answer #3 · answered by hexeliebe 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. Why would he be able to? It isn't his body, right?
And that's a slippery slope. What if the baby was from a one night stand, and the absentee father suddenly appeared demanding the woman to keep it? What if she was raped and the rapist tried to dictate even further what she should do? Another scenario that comes to mind, though more of a stretch, is if the woman's life would be in danger if she gave birth. You're telling me the father would have more say than a doctor and demand her to keep it?
2007-07-06 01:47:52 · answer #4 · answered by guess 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No one can stop an abortion. Basically, we cannot force a woman to keep the baby if she does not want to. Think about it, even there is a such law, how you are going to enforce it? Chain the woman to a bed for 9 months?
2007-07-06 03:44:33 · answer #5 · answered by coldrain 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, if the woman wants to sleep with 500 men in any given year and abort 50-100 children without telling anyone, she can if she wants to. It's her body after all. Nothing wrong with that.
2007-07-06 01:49:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Sadly no.
I think if that laws stands than no woman should be able to go after a man when a woman has a baby.
Fair is right her choice to carry it to term so she should take sole responsibility for the child.
2007-07-06 01:56:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
No there's not. Law & Order is fiction.
2007-07-06 02:00:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope... it is her body. But they should put an X on her wrist for every abortion she has had so the next guy knows what he is getting into when he reaches out to touch her.
2007-07-06 01:48:04 · answer #9 · answered by polity 2 · 2⤊ 6⤋
No. It is the mother's right to choose.
2007-07-06 01:51:35 · answer #10 · answered by regerugged 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋