Posted on 07/26/2019 8:39:52 AM PDT by Morgana
The lawyers for a man suing a local abortion clinic are now asking the judge to deny the clinic’s request to drop the lawsuit.
Ryan Magers filed a lawsuit in February against the Alabama Women's Center in Huntsville for performing an abortion on his former girlfriend.
Two years ago, Magers and his then girlfriend were expecting. He said wanted to have the baby, but his ex-girlfriend chose to have an abortion.
This led to Magers filing a lawsuit suing the abortion clinic, its employees, and the pharmaceutical company that supplied the medication.
Magers’ lawyers are arguing that because the fetus, called Baby Roe, has been granted personhood by a Madison County Probate Judge, therefore giving the aborted fetus rights, the clinic’s request to drop the lawsuit should be denied.
Part of the motion reads, “Alabama law has granted Baby Roe's personal representative, Ryan Magers, the legal authority to bring a suit on Baby Roe's behalf for the wrongful termination of his or her life.".
The motion also mentions the Declaration of Independence, saying it guarantees the right to life and argues this includes the lives of aborted children.
A hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday.
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I hope he wins!
Ok. But people ought to get married first. Worked for millennia until birth control and the s storm of the late ‘60s
This is something I’ve wondered about for years...A Father’s rights...
This case could change everything.
It’s a long shot, but genetically the baby is half his and as the father he should have a say in whether the child lives. If the mother doesn’t want the baby she can renounce all rights and disappear once the child is born, but she shouldn’t have the sole discretion on the life and death decision. If she decided to have the baby you could bet she’d go to court looking for child support because after all he’s the father and the child belongs to him too.
It is about time the father and unborn baby are given back their “rights” too.
I was thinking the same thing. It will be the first thing the defending lawyer brings up. “If the ‘Baby’ meant that much to you, why didn’t you marry the mother as a way of providing a more secure situation for the Baby’s care.
Did you the two of you ever even discuss the possibility of getting married?
No Sir, no you did not. Because, quote: “We don’t need that piece of paper” unquote, to use your words.
It is about time the father and unborn baby are given back their “rights” too.
Too bad.
He wasn’t married to her.
He has zero rights.
The child is the victim, not him.
He is a culprit
“It’s a long shot, but genetically the baby is half his and as the father he should have a say in whether the child lives.”
Under what law in western civilization?
"Under what law in western civilization?"
This is in Alabama, which about 15 years ago made a law called the Parent-Child Relationship Protection Act. The purpose, to keep custodial parents (almost always the mother) from moving (with the kid) more than 60 miles away from the non-custodial parent (the father). If they do, they lose custody and the kid goes to the parent not moving away from the other parent. So moms are still free to move away, but they're not free to make choices that almost completely severs the relationship with the father.
So an argument could be made that the father's lawsuit is a natural extension of the spirit of that Act. I mean, abortion servers the relationship with the father more than moving the kid 100 miles away.
Hope it does give fathers rights.
Sadly, the babies don’t have any rights.
Exactly correct...it is NOT her body...it has different DNA as compared to her. Next time some women says she has the power to do what she wants to do with her body...I will point out that inconvenient truth.
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