BluePhantom
Educator (of liberals)
Again, that isn't the question. The question is if a woman can decide not to have a kid post conception, why is the supposed father precluded from the same choice? Of course this choice has to be made in time for the woman to have an abortion, or not have one.
As I've already stated, at least 10 times on this thread, I'm sure most women keep in mind where their partner stands on the issue, but the final say belongs to the woman because she's the one who has to carry to term, or not carry. If the decision is to keep and raise a child, then BOTH parents owe that child support.
Again, how is that "equal"?
If she wants to carry to term, and the man wants no part of it, why, if his intent is known, should he be responsible against his will?
Are you saying women need special protection from the government?
It's equal because a male would be treated with the same respect to privacy if the situation were reversed. Holy Mother of Gawd.
Before birth, however, the issue takes on a very different cast. It is an inescapable biological fact that state regulation with respect to the child a woman is carrying will have a far greater impact on the mother's liberty than on the father's. The effect of state regulation on a woman's protected liberty is doubly deserving of scrutiny in such a case, as the State has touched not only upon the private sphere of the family but upon the very bodily integrity of the pregnant woman. Cf. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. of Health, 497 U. S., at 281. The Court has held that "when the wife and the husband disagree on this decision, the view of only one of the two marriage partners can prevail. Inasmuch as it is the woman who physically bears the child and who is the more directly and immediately affected by the pregnancy, as between the two, the balance weighs in her favor." Danforth, supra, at 71. This conclusion rests upon the basic nature of marriage and the nature of our Constitution: "
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992)
Actually it's not equal, and that's the whole point.
and what you are quoting deals with a couple inside of a marriage, not outside of a marriage, so it really isn't applicable.
The same stands for single women since she's the one who has to carry the baby to term. It's totally applicable. The same rules apply to boyfriends/biological fathers.
The only way to get the kind of equality you desire is to figure out a way where men can carry a baby to term. Once you do that, you will have more control over the outcome of the pregnancy. And once again, I'm all for that kind of equality.
No the way to establish equality is to allow the man the same opportunity to avoid taking responsibility for his actions as the woman enjoys. If the man legally relinquishes his standing as the father of the child, he should bear no responsibility for financial support of the child. In such a situation, both men and women have an equal opportunity to avoid taking responsibility for their actions. The woman has been given plenty of fair warning, she knows she will be on her own with this child and she can have it or not as she sees fit.