This topic came up just as an ethical discussion between me and my fiance and I wanted to ask the public because it is a very interesting debate.
If paternity can be proven while a woman is pregnant (say it's a simple mandatory test, there are ways now, but risky tests like amnio's) and the father is established, should he have rights to the unborn baby?
When the baby is born and a father is classified, he then has legal rights to that child. But what about before then?
If a man wants the woman to carry the child and not abort, why can't he have a say?
I know it's her body, but it's their child, that doesn't seem fair at all to me. Especially when women use that excuse when men don't want to pay child support for a child they didn't want in the first place but the woman decided against abortion or adoption.
If it takes two to tango, why does it only take 1 to decide the fate of an embryo how is that fair in the least?
If the man had a legal say, I understand how things would be a whole lot more complicated, who would chose the fate of the child if both parents disagree'd so on and so forth, I guess I just feel that if a man wants to care for his child, he should be given that opportunity because men can mourn the loss of a baby in abortion-especially if he's the one that really wanted that baby. I just feel so torn as a woman because men like this are one in a million and the men that get charged child support for children they didn't want are a dime a dozen.
