There's an article right now on MSNBC about a Florida man who gave his girlfriend medicine to make her have an abortion, without her knowledge. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/10/20422793-florida-man-admits-he-tricked-girlfriend-into-taking-abortion-drug?threadId=3813273&commentId=78893370#c78893370
Many men are arguing that one, women trick men into having children and thus make them pay child support; or two, that this is just like a woman getting an abortion without the man's consent.
Let's address the first. If a woman tricks a man into making her pregnant, in some cases, he will not have to pay child support. For instance, if he can prove that she poked holes in condoms. However, this is rare and unlikely. Additionally, these people arguing that women do this, do they not have any idea what child support is and what it pays. Not nearly enough for women to make profit in this matter.
Second, women are the ones who become pregnant. Women are the ones called sluts for getting pregnant outside of wedlock. Women are the ones who bear the physical, emotional, and social effects of pregnancy. Men, they have nothing to do with pregnancy, unless they want to. Until men are shamed by society, or equally, until neither are shamed by society for unwed pregnancies, women must be given more rights. They must always be allowed to choose abortion, because women are the ones who bear the brunt of everything from conception to adulthood for that pregnancy. Men are too often let off the hook.
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