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Consider the reasoning in post #54...were Roe vs. Wade overturned tomorrow, getting to a Human Life Amendment, which having personhood defined as "at conception" amounts to whether it is by law, or ruling, or Amendment, will require a series of building blocks. I offer the legal endorsement of a pro-life father's right to protect as the most critical of those building blocks. See #54 for one of several reasons why, I can offer several others.

Further, consider it on a personal level. If legally endorsing a father's right to protect saves lives...

Also, consider were it your own baby soon to be subject to the death-by-dismemberment of abortion...

Would you not feel in every fibre of your being the right, need, and obligation to protect your own baby?

I totally agree with you in sentiment; if I fathered a child that the mother wanted to abort, I would want to save "my" baby. I just don't think there's any chance that the courts would uphold my rights as a father over the mother's wish to terminate the pregnancy as long as abortion itself remains legal. Even if such a law were to be passed it would be struck down by the courts because the majority wouldn't agree to allow a father's rights to supercede the right of the mother to "control her own body".

The only way to correct the abortion situation is to grant human status (and thus the right to life) to unborn babies in the womb. Then the baby's right to life would trump the mother's wish to abort the pregnancy.

The reason we have legalized abortion is because unborn babies have no rights. It isn't a question of fathers' rights versus mothers' rights. It's a question of recognizing that an unborn baby is a human being with it's own right to life. BTW, as a single father who has fought hard for custody of my twin sons, I am more sensitive to and experienced than most in the ways of family law and issues of fathers' rights. As I said, I empathize with your sentiments. I just don't think your well-intentioned proposal is the right solution to this problem.