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[toddytodd]

straw man wrote: I have heard so much talk here about "enslaving women" and the idea that whether to get an abortion or not is a decision for the woman and the woman only, and who are we to control her and what she does with her body etc. etc.

I was wondering, doesn't the father also have a say? I mean granted he's not carrying the child, he still supplied half the genetic material and was an equal partner in the child's creation. Of course if the man is nowhere to be found then he waives his rights, but besides that, doesn't he not get a say?

For the pro choice people: if the dad never split, but said let's stay here and raise and care for this child of ours, and yet the mom says no way "it's MY body and I want an abortion" then should she have the right to get an abortion anyway and destroy the child that the dad wanted to preserve?

I believe a father should have a say in it, (as long as he wants say in it). Without him, there would be no baby that is half his. However, men should be more careful with whom they share their seed with.....
Know who you are scr*wing before you scr*w. Any person (man or woman) who jumps in the sack with the first person they see are asking for nothing but trouble.

[tim109]

LostSoul3412 wrote: Unfortunately, the father has a choice as to whether or not he has a choice. While I would take much interest in my own potential children, any father holds the option of taking off at the first signs of pregnancy. Do father's have a say in abortion? Yes. He helped create the embroy, he has the say in aborting it. With any hope, the parents can come to an agreement on the issue, should there be a continous dispute, I believe that the mother has the final say.

So does the father have a say? Yes. Does the father have authority? No.
Assuming they both chose to have sex, what is wrong with the father wanting to actually have a child? If the father doesn't want it, but the mother does, then the law says that the father has to pay child support. The father never wanted the child, but because he made the decision to have sex, he has to pay the consequences of that decision.
If the father wants the child, but the mother wants an abortion, she still chose to have sex. So are you saying that if the father doesn't want the child, he should still be held accountable and his life potentionally ruined but that if the mother doesn't want the child, she should be able to go free?