Blantantly pulled this off another website. Just thought it was interesting.
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I would extend my opinion further to say that I believe the biological father should be legally allowed to accept or deny responsibility and legal fatherhood within a timeframe, also. Women are uniquely and critically impacted by a pregnancy and birth to be certain, but men are not without risk, too, and I think that is a topic yet to be in vogue and under serious discussion with subsequent efforts to legislatively address it.
A father should NOT be able to force or deny an abortion----but he should be able to legally say that he either has or does not have interest in playing the role of a father indefinitely. Women [from my observation] do appear, at least occasionally, to use childbirth as a tool to financially rape, coerce, and abuse men for many, many years and I think that a protection needs to be developed to remove incentive to do that and to give *some* increased control and legal recognition----both in the formal responsibility AND rights arenas---to the men as well.
And that is not to take anything away from the fact that women can be and have been exploited by men, and have unique vulnerabilities, too. Nor to deny that many men certainly are mediocre or are jerks [just to say that often women are, tooand it would be just to improve upon this at the same time]. But that wanders OT somewhat, tho I think it arguably is an inextricable facet of the overall dilemma and should be an evolving part of the discussion for empowering *everyone*.
-capsaicin67
