Should the government stop abortions?

[devonin]

Originally Posted by OrganisM

It is the mother who will have to give birth to the child, so it should be her choice.

This is generally because a mans feelings are generally not considered. However i'm a completely for equal responsiblity but generally a lot of the time there are double standards. You expect men to have more responsiblity but when it suits a woman in certain cases she'd have the man have no say, and go ahead with it anyway.

They also missed on the fact that it takes two people to make a baby. All of the blame in those posts is placed on the woman - she has to pay the consequences for HER actions

Isn't it kind of funny how if the woman wants an abortion and the man wants to keep the baby, that the woman can just go have an abortion without him, but if the man doesn't want the baby and the woman does, not only can the women just ignore him and keep the baby, she can still demand that he pay support.

That's where the doubestandard is. Either the man and woman have equal responsability or they don't. If they have equal responsability, then the man should have an -equal- say in whether the baby is kept. If they don't have equal responsability, then unfortunately, if the man doesn't want the kid, they should in my opinion be perfectly allowed to have no part of it.

I mean, it's a jackass thing to do, and you hope that people are being responsable enough to not just have sex willy-nilly with random people, but lets not kid ourselves.

I just don't think it is necessarily fair that two people can get together one night after the bar, and just because the woman decides she wants to keep the kid, suddenly have the right to demand the same from the man.

This story here http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/274495936.html Actually kinda highlights the attitude I find so reprehensible.