Reply #186: Oh boy. [View All]

[Frodo]

"If she chooses to have no responsibility" refers to the sex act. They are both responsible for what they did. She can choose to bear no such responsibility for that action, he can not. In fact, I've had times in my life when I thought the pro-choice position was really at the urging of men who wanted to get out of reponsibility for their actions.

And whether the egg BECOMES a child is entirely a mater of the woman's choice. That was the original question, remember? If she chooses for it not to be a child it isn't. He has no such choice.


Understand that my real position is that BOTH of them should bear responsibility. If you don't want to pay for a child you don't go sleeping around with people you don't intend to have a child with. But how well does that sell? Like many here I am personally firmly against abortion (just not necessarily from a political policy standpoint). Both people DO have a choice - before they get in bed.

Regardless, the point still stands. From a legal standpoint, the man's "choice" ends when he get's into bed. The woman has six months of "flexibility" on both her responsibility and his. And remember the woman's prerogative? :-)