Why can’t men sign away their rights to the ‘cells’ if they want to abort the child? If you decide to have the baby against his reproductive rights, why do you get to force him to pay for your choice?
(disclaimer- I take good care of my children and think men should support their offspring and I’m obviously against abortion, but men should have the same rights to reproductive choice as any woman)
That’s so true. If the woman decides to abort the baby that’s HER choice. As far as I know the father cannot legally prevent his child’s murder. But if she decides to keep it he has to pay for 18 years. He gets no say. In a lib world full of hollering about women’s rights, reproductive rights, abortion on demand...what about the men???
It used to be the case that men in most states were not compelled to support their illegitimate children. they could thus signal their unwillingness to have children by not marrying.
This changed in the early 1970's with Supreme Court cases like GOMEZ v. PEREZ (1973) which struck down child-support laws that distinguished between legitimate and illegitimate children.
This was the real beginning of our "single mother" crisis.