When an unwanted baby is conceived, the mother and father are equally responsible for the conception, but legally they are treated unequally with post-conception options. The mother has the choice of abortion (which she should have), adoption, or assume legal responsibility and raise the child. However, the father is given no options whatsoever. He must simply go along with whatever decision the mother makes.

On one hand, the man is being held 100% responsible for pre-conception birth control or else he is court mandated to support the child for 18-26 years (because, statistically, he has a 7% chance of gaining custody if he seeks it). Yet the woman is entitled to post conception choices the man isn't.

Why is it that a woman is legally and morally entitled to enforce, without his choice, an 18-26 year financial obligation (which is inherently biased against men), equivalent to extortion, onto a man for an act that she is equally responsible for, but has post conception options, yet, it is somehow unreadable for a man to absolve himself of the obligation (as the woman can choose to), leaving the woman still having a choice.

I propose that after a woman discovers she is pregnant and informs the father. He should be given a period to time to absolve himself of the legal obligation to care for the child(just as the woman has this right when she puts a baby up for adoption). At that point, the woman can then make her fully informed decision between her post conception options.