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Posted on 09/01/2025 2:34:06 PM PDT by Morgana
A recent Wall Street Journal report described a new legal development in the fight to protect unborn life: a number of fathers are filing lawsuits over abortions carried out without their knowledge or consent.
The suits claim harm from the loss of their children and seek accountability from those who facilitated the abortions, including doctors, family members, and abortion pill distributors, the Journal reported Aug. 26.
According to the outlet, many of these cases originate in Texas, where state law permits parents to sue for the wrongful death of an unborn child. Some lawsuits target out-of-state providers who mail abortion pills into states with pro-life protections, challenging shield laws in other states such as California and New York that protect those providers from liability.
One recent case involves Jerry Rodriguez of Houston, who alleged that his girlfriend’s mother and her estranged husband pressured her into taking abortion pills during two separate pregnancies — both of which, he says, she had wanted to carry. The pills were allegedly ordered from a California doctor. Rodriguez is seeking more than $1 million in damages and is asking a judge to bar the doctor from mailing additional abortion pills.
Another case outlined by the outlet involves a Texas man who discovered that his partner had ordered abortion pills from Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter, a New York-based physician. According to court filings, the woman never informed the man of the pregnancy.
When she began to hemorrhage, he brought her to the hospital and later found the abortion drugs. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against the doctor and obtained a $100,000 default judgment — though New York authorities have refused to enforce it under their state’s laws.
The legal strategy reflects growing efforts by pro-life attorneys and advocates to affirm that fathers also have a stake in the lives of their unborn children.
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, told WSJ, “We’re starting to have fathers who feel that they can speak out and speak up for their rights and for the rights of the child.”
Several of the cases have been brought with the involvement of Jonathan F. Mitchell, the former Texas solicitor general and author of the state’s SB 8 law. That legislation, known widely as the Texas Heartbeat Act, allows private citizens to file civil lawsuits against individuals who perform or assist with abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
Texas Right to Life has also been active in supporting these cases. Its president, John Seago, told the Journal that the organization is working through pro-life networks, including crisis pregnancy centers, to identify individuals willing to come forward.
Seago told the outlet, “We have been trying to sound the alarm and recruit people to this fight.”
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if a guy wants a woman to keep her baby,marry her first..don't have sex until you do...simple..
If the father has no voice, it’s REALLY hard to justify his having full obligations.
As pro life as I am, I do agree with you.
Yes these men should have been more careful with their seed. Now he wants to care? Men wanted abortion for easy sex without responsibility, but the sword cuts both ways.
Do they really want to raise a child by themselves? Oh I’m sure they would and when “daddy’s new girlfriend” comes in their lives that will be just hell for the kid.
All I have to say is men protect your seed.
That is why I say men protect your seed. Don’t lay up with a woman who will kill your child.
Just as I’d say to a woman don’t lay up with a man who would tell you to kill your baby.
So “partner” is the trendy buzzword du jour? Didn’t those used to be called “girlfriends”, “boyfriends”, “f***-buddies”, “friends with benefits”, etc.?
Boy do I feel old-fashioned when I pine for the days of people sa ying “husband” and “wife”.
I am talking Common Law and Law of Equity. You are correct on Biblical Law.
Wow. This is great news!!
They use partner instead of husband and wife now I think to hide when they have a husband and they are a guy. Eye roll.
I’m looking at the big picture. We are finally pushing back against feminization of the Western Civilization.
long over due
Legalized abortion is the only law that allows a human being, the mother, to decide whether another life is a human or a "clump of cells". NO ONE has that right.
Citing marriage is a misdirection. Married women can and do kill their children while her husband, the father, has no legal recourse to stop her.
Why do I have a picture of Pelosi's husband and a plastic hammer stuck in my head at this moment? LOL 🤣
As a young father, I’m glad that my wife and I had our first child at 18 (wife was 17). We knew we were going to get married, but we both were careless. We wanted to wait, but it happened. We had our parents helping us, yet mostly it is us.
Yup
Finally. Men have no parental rights.
MY body MY choose...
My wallet, my money, you want to keep the baby then you pay for it.
This is the result of feminism, 'I want my abortion, I want my abortion now, unless I can make some money with it.'
I am not a uber religious person but I do believe that tax money should not be used for abortion, abortion as a form of birth control is a heinous and foul thing. Planed parenthood's sale of baby and fetus tissue and body parts is a crime against humanity and what ever god you may believe in.
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