IncendiaryGunner
Master
Physical equality and equality before the law are two entirely different things. My point is that you are taking two people who jointly made the same bad decision if this discussion is even happening and affording one of them all the choices with zero accountability and the other zero choice with all the accountability.
If we are going to step away from my position that abortion is murder and categorically unacceptable, let's explore the following potential solution:
1. The woman still has her choice to opt out clean with abortion.
2. Assuming that she chooses not to, then the man has his choice to opt out and simply walk away.
3. I would also provide for a binding agreement to be made in which they agree for the baby to be born with the woman walking away free after giving birth with no rights, privileges, or responsibilities pertaining to the baby.
4. Assuming that neither one wants to opt out, then it can be dealt with using the traditional terms.
Under a plan of this type, there are plenty of options without having one person dictate decades of another person's life while affording him no recourse about his own life. I don't really like this, but I also believe that equality either is or is not and that no one should be able to control the life of another person, especially in a situation of equal culpability. I would agree without reservation to having a man on the hook to provide for his child in a pre-Roe environment in which the mother was equally on the hook for their mutual decision. If we are going to have equality in our leftist, amoral paradise, let's have equality.
When a baby is birthed, both parents are responsible. It takes two people to create a baby... The opt-out for a man is not impregnating a woman, and it should stay that way.
A man has the right to not engage in sexual intercourse if he so chooses. Since men do not get pregnant, the decision to have an abortion at the end of the day is not his. If a woman has a child, the man still participated in creating it - and it is still his responsibility. If he does not want to take care of it, he should not create it.