Deadman_ny
Spaceman
We all know that abortion in this country is legal. I'm not dispuing this law. Nor am I saying a woman's right to choose should be taken away. Or that it's right.
I started this thread because a friend of mine recently told me that his girlfriend was pregnant. He was happy to hear the news though clearly nearvouse about the prospect of being a father. All those feelings that come with life changing news. I've been there, nine months of worry and doctors visits. Hopeing that everything is ok with the pregnancy and that you'll be as ready as you can be when he/she arrives.
Three weeks after he told me with such elation that he was going to be a father he came to me in tears saying that she had told him that she wasn't ready to be a mother and that she was going to terminate the pregnancy. Her choice, not his. This just doesn't seem right.
I'm not talking about abortion on it's face. I'm not even going to open that can of worms. Though in some aspects it does help with population control. I just do not think that it is right that if the mother wants an abortion she can do so evan without the conscent of the father. Furthurmore, evan if the father doesn't want the child the mother can choose not to abort and the father is legally resposible for the child until adulthood.
What about the right of the father? What if he was willing to raise the child? It seems wronge. When two people knock boots; even with birth control there is a possibility of one getting "knocked up". That is what we're told...in so many words. That as a "man" if you got a girl pregnant that you got married; in older times anyway. Now days such things are a bit differnt. You live here. Whats your take?
I started this thread because a friend of mine recently told me that his girlfriend was pregnant. He was happy to hear the news though clearly nearvouse about the prospect of being a father. All those feelings that come with life changing news. I've been there, nine months of worry and doctors visits. Hopeing that everything is ok with the pregnancy and that you'll be as ready as you can be when he/she arrives.
Three weeks after he told me with such elation that he was going to be a father he came to me in tears saying that she had told him that she wasn't ready to be a mother and that she was going to terminate the pregnancy. Her choice, not his. This just doesn't seem right.
I'm not talking about abortion on it's face. I'm not even going to open that can of worms. Though in some aspects it does help with population control. I just do not think that it is right that if the mother wants an abortion she can do so evan without the conscent of the father. Furthurmore, evan if the father doesn't want the child the mother can choose not to abort and the father is legally resposible for the child until adulthood.
What about the right of the father? What if he was willing to raise the child? It seems wronge. When two people knock boots; even with birth control there is a possibility of one getting "knocked up". That is what we're told...in so many words. That as a "man" if you got a girl pregnant that you got married; in older times anyway. Now days such things are a bit differnt. You live here. Whats your take?