Men have no legal say regarding abortion. If a woman becomes pregnant, she has the legal right to stop the pregnancy, but a man can do nothing. If the choice is not equally shared, why should the responsibility be equally shared?
Absolutely, the choice and responsibility should be shared. I personally would never make that decision without the fathers input. My own beliefs are such that unless I was raped, I wouldn't consider abortion (no flames please, I'm not pretending to make the decision for anyone else), but before I made the decion to raise the child, or give it up for adoption I would be discussing everything with the father. If someone has an unexpected pregnancy, It took two to make that child, and both have a responsiblity to be involved in the decisions regarding that child.
The thing is, and this is a failing of society I suppose, men have not traditionally taken responsibility, and so should not have a choice. If you fathered a child and will take the child and raise it (I have several friends doing just that) than you get a choice. But I have heard men say oh, no I don't want anything to do with raising the kid, but I want you to have the child anyway. Ummm no.
Of course the main point here is that one would think, after 7 kids she knows the facts of life. I've been sexually active for a decade and gee look, no kids. There are plenty of birth control options, heck you can go into a clinic and get free condoms which work pretty darn well. A child, ok accident, something slipped/broke whatever. 7 kids is willful ignorance.
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Absolutely, the choice and responsibility should be shared. I personally would never make that decision without the fathers input. My own beliefs are such that unless I was raped, I wouldn't consider abortion (no flames please, I'm not pretending to make the decision for anyone else), but before I made the decion to raise the child, or give it up for adoption I would be discussing everything with the father. If someone has an unexpected pregnancy, It took two to make that child, and both have a responsiblity to be involved in the decisions regarding that child.
The thing is, and this is a failing of society I suppose, men have not traditionally taken responsibility, and so should not have a choice. If you fathered a child and will take the child and raise it (I have several friends doing just that) than you get a choice. But I have heard men say oh, no I don't want anything to do with raising the kid, but I want you to have the child anyway. Ummm no.
Of course the main point here is that one would think, after 7 kids she knows the facts of life. I've been sexually active for a decade and gee look, no kids. There are plenty of birth control options, heck you can go into a clinic and get free condoms which work pretty darn well. A child, ok accident, something slipped/broke whatever. 7 kids is willful ignorance.