Posted on 03/08/2019 9:24:10 AM PST by Red Badger
A grieving Alabama father won an initial victory this week in a lawsuit challenging the abortion facility that aborted his unborn child.
Ryan Magers is suing the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville after his girlfriend aborted their unborn baby there against his will. On Tuesday, Madison County Judge Frank Barger granted Magers’ petition to represent the estate of his child, “Baby Roe,” and, as a result, sue the abortion facility on behalf of his late child, according to Vice News.
Attorney Brent Helms, who represents Magers, said the judge’s decision is an initial victory for their case.
“This is the first estate that I’m aware of that has ever been opened for an aborted baby,” Helms told WAAY News.
Helms said Magers pleaded with his girlfriend to have the baby and even took on an extra job to prepare for the baby’s birth, according to Refinery 29. The couple broke up after the abortion.
“I’m here for the men who actually want to have their baby,” Magers told ABC 31 when he announced the lawsuit in February. “I just tried to plead with her and plead with her and just talk to her about it and see what I could do, but in the end, there was nothing I could do to change her mind.”
He said his girlfriend was six weeks pregnant when she had the abortion in 2017. By six weeks, an unborn baby’s heart is already beating; he or she also has their own unique DNA that determines hair and eye color, gender and other traits.
The wrongful death lawsuit is against the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville, the abortionist and the pharmaceutical company involved in the abortion.
“Baby Roe’s innocent life was taken by the profiteering of the Alabama Women’s Center and while no court will be able to bring Baby Roe back to life, we will seek the fullest extent of justice on behalf of Baby Roe and Baby Roe’s father,” Helms said in a statement.
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“The time is ripe for consistency in Alabama’s jurisprudence: either we fully acknowledge the personhood of the unborn or we cherry pick which innocents we protect and which ones we trash for profit,” he continued.
The judge’s ruling Tuesday upset abortion activists. NARAL leader Ilyse Hogue called the case “very scary” on Twitter.
Right now in the U.S., fathers do not have any legal rights to protect their unborn children from abortion. State laws requiring that a father be notified or given a say in an abortion have been struck down by U.S. courts.
Not long after Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Planned Parenthood v. Danforth case that spousal consent statutes are unconstitutional if the statutes allow the husband to unilaterally prohibit the abortion in the first trimester. In a subsequent case, Coe v. Gerstein, the high court extended that decision to a spousal consent law regardless of the stage of the woman’s pregnancy.
Then, in the 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law requiring that a married woman notify her husband of her plans to have an abortion prior to it taking place.
The case is a strong reminder of how abortion affects more than just a mother and child. There are countless heartbroken fathers across the country who have to bear a lifetime of grief because their partners chose to abort their unborn child against their will.
The Men and Abortion Network (MAN) is available to help fathers of aborted children. It provides free resources to fathers like Magers as well as men who agreed with or even coerced their partner into aborting an unborn baby but now regret it.
Why wouldn’t a father have a say in an abortion of their child? I think this could be an important, if not a truly, constitutional issue.
Most such "fathers" seem to be just fine with burying the evidence of their casual use of women.
For you guys with a scintilla of decency, my advice is to never sleep with a woman who would execute your child.
My kids made Eagle Scout last night, and we went to dinner. One of my unofficial kids is one who was ‘unplanned’, and another official kid is adopted. I have two other boys besides.
I commented to the car coming home, “One day I want to meet your birth mom and shake her hand.”
My daughter’s retort? “I know, I should be dead right now. It’s a miracle I’m alive.”
My retort: “Honey, it’s a miracle any of us made it past the labia in the last 30 years.”
Did he offer to Marry her?!
Don't get me wrong. I'm very prolife and I believe abortion (unless to save the Life of the mother) is a grave Sin.
Haven’t you heard? Men are evil and should have no rights at all.
Because there's no one more hypocritical than a women's rights activist.
While they maintain a woman's biology should not affect her decision to reproduce, a man's biology compels him to decide before even engaging in sex.
That's how they justify giving him no voice in the birth, but require him to pay support for HER decision to reproduce.
These guys are usually more sperm donor than “father”. Unusual.
And my advice to you is man up and stop finding fault with the person that has no decision rights vis a vis abortion.
Put the blame where it belongs. No man can compel nor prevent the abortion of his unborn child. That decision belongs EXCLUSIVELY to women.
Amazing. Generally the man is considered to have no rights in the matter. But he gets the bills.
I think my advice to young men to avoid abortion-friendly women is valuable.
The advice I give to those young men who actually respect my advice is to wait for marriage.
Do I find fault in a man who sleeps with a woman without considering the ramifications? Yes. Irresponsibility is self-evident.
Would you want to marry a murderer?
If so, he has a say in whether the child is to be allowed to be born.
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His rights as a father were definitely violated, IMHO...
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He should have asked her when he found out she was pregnant. After the fact NO!
Abortion is murder and if I ever get a girl pregnant, wait, before I have sex with her, I’d ask her if she believe in the murder of babies. If she does, I will drop her...
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