Everybody wants to give women the right to choose but not men; this is just an unfortunate but natural consequence.

Hamakua · 2013-09-10T15:14:23+00:00

Weren't Safe Haven laws put in place to prevent women from abandoning their babies, and leaving them to die? The rationale being along the lines of: "it's better to give the mothers an option and let the state take responsibility, rather than force that responsibility on the mothers and risk having the children be neglected or worse"? Something like that?

Well, stories like this are just more reason for why men should be given the same rights that women have when it comes to making a unilateral decision to defer parental responsibilities to the state.

SuicideSlide · 2013-09-10T14:55:22+00:00

http://www.the-spearhead.com/2013/05/16/man-unilaterally-aborts-child-charged-with-murder/

You know, it’s a pretty sleazy thing to do, but imagine if the tables were turned. Man doesn’t want his child aborted, but girlfriend does it anyway. Who believes she’d be charged with murder? No, it would be her “right,” because it’s “her body.” Using that logic, however, how could we come up with a murder charge agaist the boyfriend? If a woman can terminate a pregnancy at will and face no charges for the injury done to the child, then the most Mr. Weldon should reasonably face is a felony assault charge for drugging his girlfriend.

This is yet another case where the law clearly and explicitly demonstates that men and women are not equal under the law, and most people – including women – do not want them to be.

I’m not arguing for or against abortion here, but instead pointing out the hypocrisy inherent in law surrounding abortion. Commenters have pointed out that Kermit Gosnell was merely the “hit man” for the women who hired him to kill their children. Not a single one of his patients was charged with any crime for having him exterminate viable infants.

These kinds of cases demonstrate that in some areas, women clearly have superior rights. That might be tolerable if men had superior rights in other areas, but this is unacceptable to feminists. The advantage must always tilt toward the female, and there must be no balance. In the long term, this is unsustainable.

Grubnar · 2013-09-10T23:48:30+00:00

John McKay • 16 hours ago − The root problem here is the inequality in legal system. If a mother wants to abort unilaterally, she can, which is fine. I'm not going to argue that if the father wants to abort unilaterally, that he should be able to. After all, it's the woman's body. However, if the father wants to abort during the legal abortion limit and the mother wants to keep it, and this is documented, he should be off the hook for legal responsibility, specifically child support.
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This is the top comment and the votes speak for themself.

Bakerofpie · 2013-09-10T17:50:43+00:00

I posted the EXACT same viewpoint with an article about this and got downvoted to all to hell. Didn't make sense to me in a men's rights sub, so I'm glad other people don't think it's some radical idea. It's a touchy issue, but to me just an example of how the current system does not work.

Realworld · 2013-09-11T00:52:13+00:00

People lack foresight. When GFs started pressing me for babies I recognized the danger. I kept control of my own future by getting a vasectomy while still single and in my 20s.

It annoyed future GFs: "No, I don't want a baby but you really have to get that reversed." They didn't like losing their control of that option.

Coelacanth0794 · 2013-09-10T19:00:19+00:00

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whoizz · 2013-09-10T16:55:52+00:00

I like how at the bottom there was a related article with the headline "Women Sell Positive Pregnancy Tests on Craigslist" Oh the irony. Amazing double standards abound.

2013-09-10T20:00:20+00:00

I feel like this is terrible the woman wanted the child the man didn't. I can't blame the man for doing this but if she had arbitrarily decided to have an abortion.. he would have no say ether. I feel for this woman to be honest. In truth though he was acting arbitrarily as though he was an equal with some right to not allow the child to be.. not only that he was protecting himself financially speaking by avoiding being forced into fatherhood. The whole child birth issue is entirely rigged against men ffs.

sillymod · 2013-09-11T01:23:56+00:00

a) This has already been posted.

b) Tangentially related material need to be posted as a self post, with an argument in the self post.

You are drawing attention to the article. The other post is drawing attention to the comments (where supposedly MR material is posted).

rapiertwit · 2013-09-10T16:06:36+00:00

Just because the law doesn't allow you equality of choice, doesn't justify taking that choice away from someone else (and putting their life in danger). Not one bit.

Roddy0608 · 2013-09-10T21:02:50+00:00

I do think the guy should have guarded his sperm better.

Title	Everybody wants to give women the right to choose but not men; this is just an unfortunate but natural consequence.
Author	jpcassil
Upvotes	61
Comments	26
Date	September 10, 2013 2:30 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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