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Re: US appeals court upholds new Texas abortion rules |
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Posted by Nilet on Sat Apr 5 18:54:25 2014, in response to Re: US appeals court upholds new Texas abortion rules, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Apr 5 18:25:40 2014. The current status is that if a woman has an abortion, the man avoids child support payments. If the woman chooses to have the child the man is forced to make those payments. Unmarried men should have the option to choose to make those payments and abdicate any future parental rights, just as how women have the choice to have an abortion.Bullshit. No one has the "right" to become a parent without taking responsibility for their child. The current status is: You have the right to choose whether or not you reproduce, regardless of gender. If you choose to reproduce, you are responsible for your child, regardless of gender. Once you have entirely completed your role in the process of reproduction, it is too late to declare that you don't want to become a parent after all and abdicate responsibility for your children, regardless of gender. That a woman's role in the process of reproduction concludes nine months after a man's is a simple fact of biology; a silver lining to the fact that she has to put up with the misery of pregnancy and childbirth while he doesn't. If men need special rights to compensate them for lacking this female biological advantage, then women should be entitled to monetary compensation from any man who gets them pregnant in order to make things even. When the courts take nearly 20% of your paycheck and offer nothing in return except for the threat of imprisonment in some cases, it is punitive. Compelling you to uphold your legal and moral responsibilities is not "punitive," it's what society does. Child support is no more punitive than taxation. |
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