This is a false equivalence. Both men and women have the same opportunity (or lack thereof, if the state decides to go after them for support) not to be a parent - adoption, leaving the kid at a fire station, severing parental rights legally. Abortion is an opportunity not to be pregnant, a life-threatening medical condition that men cannot experience and do not have any right to opt out of for that reason. |
Has this ever happened to a regular person? Unless IVF favors males or the father or maybe mother have some condition that favors males, 20 males in a row is a 1 in a million shot. Seems likely to be misreporting. |
Adoption is not a solution. Too many kids in orphanages and abusive homes already. |
Right, because most pregnancies are life threatening. It sounds like you’re saying that women can only get abortion if they have a life threatening medical emergency?!? And what about adoption? Are women not allowed to put their child up for adoption? Must they keep the child if they’ve birthed it? Or is it okay for a woman to give up custody to her newborn? I think it should be. Why can’t an unmarried man decide that he doesn’t want to father the unborn child of a woman he had a fling with? According to you, his choices end when he has sex, but hers continue indefinitely….why? |
Truly bizarre to cheerlead deadbeat dads while demonizing adoption. Pick a lane - do you care about the quality of life for existing kids or the rights of the adults involved to be footloose and unencumbered? |
You're not even making sense. I literally said that both parents have the same rights, or lack of rights when the state steps in, not to be parents. I didn't say that only life-threatening pregnancies have the right to be terminated, I said that ONLY women can be pregnant, and that's why only women can get an abortion. That's why there's an *additional* right to abortion that you think it's unfair men don't get - there's an additional danger to pregnancy that men do not face. Men aren't being cheated by not being able to get an abortion any more than women are cheated out of prostate cancer awareness month. His choices end when he has sex because then the issue is not inside of his body. Once the baby is born, the *baby* has rights. That's a separate issue from abortion. You think that men should be able to force a woman to have an abortion and then you try to frame it as a gender equality take. Get a grip. |
The anti-adoption poster was a different person. I’m the truly pro-choice one. In my view, an unmarried man is legally equivalent to a sperm donor if the woman decides to keep a surprise pregnancy. If you want a man to father your kids together, get a legal contract called a marriage certificate. As for the kids, you cannot make a man love your children if he doesn’t love you. That’s sadly even true for the children of divorced parents. In this case, the unwilling sperm donor, Paris’ husband, is providing financial support. What else do you want from him? He doesn’t love her or the kid. He didn’t agree to love them at any point. That is his choice. |
I never said a man should force an abortion on anyone!!!! I said that if he says he wants her to have an abortion and does not want to father the child, she should drop any expectations from him towards the child if she CHOOSES to have the baby. It is all about her choices and his. They both have the equal right to make choices about whether or not they want to parent a child as the result of an unexpected pregnancy. She can choose to terminate. She can choose to give the child up for adoption. She can chose to keep it and raise it. He can chose to state his opinion on what she should do. He can chose to embrace the pregnancy and his parental rights. He can choose to terminate his parental rights. They can choose to marry and have the child together. But he cannot force her to have an abortion and she cannot force him to father the child. In those circumstances, both of them are overstepping their bounds and making choices for the other. |
Everything about this is untethered from reality. You think that you can legally force a man to father kids with you if you're married? Or is the idea that you can enforce a "make him love the issue of this union" decree if you show up with a marriage contract in court? Once you're divorced, does he no longer have to be a dad or love the kids, since he's over it and the contract is null and void? And when did your argument become about love? You can't make a woman love her child either, what does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Why are you so determined to make accidental pregnancy some kind of "mantrap" situation when it is just about the bare minimum legal obligation to provide for the issue of your body? We can stop this back and forth because you're just in la la land trying to create an equivalence between women's right to bodily autonomy and your idea of men's god-given right to not GAF about the consequences of their actions. These things are not the same, and it doesn't make you "truly" pro choice to think that men should be able to demand abortions for someone else's uterus, so long as they're not, like, boyfriend-girlfriend or anything! |
You are taking my statements and running away with them. In the case of Paris Hilton’s husband, he had an unwanted pregnancy in a casual relationship. He did not want to father the child, but financially supports her anyway. He loves Paris and married her. They have gone to great lengths to have children together. He wants to parents these children. He loves their mother and made a decision to start a family with her. He did not abandon the first child as he never made a decision to start a family with her mother and or to be her parent. There is something to be said for being the legal contract of marriage. No, you cannot force anyone to love anyone. But you do gain a lot more legal rights with a marriage contract. Furthermore, if someone agrees to be married with you, there is a far greater likelihood that he or she loves you and wants to start a family with you. That’s all I’m saying. You seem to want to vilify this guy because he doesn’t love a child he never agreed to father. I see nothing evil in his CHOICE. |
You 100% do. Too bad. |
Lol what great lengths? The People article linked above quotes her saying they chose IVF and surrogacy for convenience, not due to medical needs. |
+1 100% agree with this |
A sperm and an egg aren’t the same as an embryo. |
Because they are completely vapid and don’t give a shit about destroying them. |