Ka-pi96 said:
SuperNova said:
I agree with you, but at the same time that is incredibly hard to enforce. Because ultimately who gets last say?
Can a woman be forced to abort if her partner doesn't want a child? (I know a woman who was forced to abort by her partner, who is now in her eighties and she is still devastated by it.)
Or in reverse forced to carry out a child she doesn't want? Be forced to face the consequences of a pregnancy to her well being and life even if she ultimately never wanted a child at that point in her life?
And then you get into incredibly hairy territory once you consider that if a pregnancy results from a rape, the rapist is the father and thus should have a say. Extending his power over a life and body, he forcibly took in the first place.
Pregnancys and abortion should not just be a 'womans issue' the father should have a say in it. But realistically it is the woman who has to bear the physical consequences of both pregnancy and abortion (just think about all the blotched illegal abortions that left women infertile in the 60s). I think that has to count for something too.
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Well one side of that could easily be solved. If the guy doesn't want the kid but the woman doesn't want an abortion then allow him to opt out of all parenting responsibilities (and rights).
Of course that doesn't solve the man wants baby but woman doesn't part of it.
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That's fair.
And if pregnancys weren't bound to the female body I'd say do the same in reverse if the man wants the child but the woman doesn't, but as it is I don't think that it's possible to find a fair way out of that one.
