Comments on: Pro-Choice – What about men?

By: shy_me

shy_me — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:29:10 +0000

well i think that you’re right. it is a woman choice to decide what she wants with her body. i believe that it is a choice that no one should tell another what to do with their body.

By: real pro-choice

real pro-choice — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:09:31 +0000

Personally nothing can be done if the father wants to have the kid or not. Once conception happens in the woman’s body the choice is hers.

Given the current laws once the baby leaves her body, the decision to start a family involving the father is again hers due to adoption, legal abandonment and biology.

The only option men can have for some equality is an option to terminate their involvement with a pregnancy basically no financial responsiblities to the child regardless like a sperm donar has.

That being said another right should be given to women to opt out of parenting too, in the sense that some don’t have to go to such measures as opting out the father too (through abandoment and adoption) just to avoid responisiblity.

Currently i disagree with the term pro-choice its should really be called “womans-choice”.

By: A.S.

A.S. — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:27:50 +0000

You know what, your arguments are completely valid and founded. Abortion is just another one of the ways where there is gender inequity in this country without us even knowing about it. I think of it this way– it takes two to tango. Why is it that a woman allows a man to enter her body for sexual intercourse willingly, yet when she becomes pregnant because of his sperm, she’s able to discount any opinion he may have about having the baby and can get an abortion? If women really want to “control their bodies” why can’t we start by advocating more responsible sexual behavior?

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:13:04 +0000

I’ve thought a lot about this inequality in parental rights. I can’t come up with a solution to both scenarios. I do believe that since a woman has the right to NOT be a mother by aborting her pregnancy, a man should have the same right. So that, despite that the woman has chosen to carry and give birth the child, if he chooses NOT to be a father his financial support should not be forced.

Regarding the reverse situation, the father wants the baby, the mother chooses abortion, I believe there is nothing the father should have the right to do. No one should have the right to force a woman to become pregnant or to force her to take an accidental pregnancy through to full term and birth. Although most of us desire equality between the genders, there are innate differences. One of them being that women conceive, carry and birth the off-spring. When it comes to having and raising kids, women are designed to trump men (obviously, men trump women in ways too). We should contentendly accept and live knowing that, based on gender as well as anything else, there are naturally built-in trade-offs and “inequalities” in life. And that’s just the way it is.

By: Naquil

Naquil — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:04:54 +0000

You are SO on point,I’ve been putin this situation myself,and the womanis not held accountable,unconstitutional,unfair,I’m human,humans,make errors,another way government makes money.

By: grandma

grandma — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:34:18 +0000

Very good arguments, but you left out the rights of the unborn – they cannot speak and I consider them a life even though they havent arrived in our world i do agree strongly that the man should be considered in this decision as it is part of them that the woman is destroying . As you know I am against abortion and think the government should not be involved.