What is their role in this morality issue for religions that don't believe in abortion? How does the man's sin fit in? Or has the man sinned?
I'm afraid I miss the point here Cookie. Are you assuming that
every abortion occurs due to sex out of wedlock? That's NOT the case my friend. According to the CDC, 20% of all abortions are on
married women. That's approximately 280,000 abortions each year on
married women. Half of all abortions are on women who have previously had an abortion. In making a completely judgemental statement, that sounds like half of those getting abortions are
very irresponsible people! "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on ME!"
Now you do bring up a great point! ;) So what if the man who "sinned" wants to do the right thing and be a father to the baby? If the mother doesn't want it, she can say "screw you buster, I'm getting an abortion!", and he has NO RIGHTS to stop it! So if it took two to tango, and the man is equally responsible for the "sin", and he decides he wants the child, then shouldn't he have equal say as to whether it should be born? I know, I know, "It's NOT his body!". So? He was half to blame!
According to a Drexel University study: In a survey of 1,000 men in abortion-clinic waiting rooms and some in-depth interviews, more than 5% were against having the abortion and
half of those not married, had made the offer to do the right thing and get married and have the child. They also said that, that did NOT include those men who didn't accompany the woman to the clinic, because they were too upset about them having the abortion.
And I thought this made alot of sense also from Levings Divorce Magazine:
"Legalized abortion is commonly understood to promote equality between the sexes by giving women the same freedom to enjoy sex without consequences that men supposedly enjoy. However, in reality, when sex results in conception, the rights of men and woman in determining their reproductive fates are far from equal.
If a woman does not want to be a mother she can terminate a pregnancy, with or without the fatherís consent. But if she wants to have the child, the father is still on the hook for as much as 21 years of child support. The father has no legal right to prevent the abortion of his unborn child nor can he ìterminateî his parental responsibilities (at least financially). Unlike women, men do not have the luxury of deciding whether or not they are ready to be parents after conception.
Some argue that this apparent inequality stems from the biological fact that a woman must bear the child for nine months and endure the rigors of child birth. As the pro-choice mantra goes: a womanís body, a womanís choice. However, fundamentally, the child is a product of both a manís and a womanís genetic material and is in that sense a part of both partiesí bodies. While certainly women have the sole biological responsibility of bearing the child, is this fact enough to completely eliminate men from the equation?"
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