Reply #230: The whole question is sexist the way you frame it. [View All]

[Devils Advocate NZ]

A non-sexist question would be:

Should any person be forced to become a parent, with all the obligations that entails?

It is a simple matter of choice vs anti-choice.

If you think someone should have a choice, then you should agree that a woman should be allowed to have an abortion, and that a man should be allowed to refuse to accept financial obligations to the child.

If you are anti-choice, then you should agree that a man should be forced to accept financial obligations to the child, while the woman should be forced to give birth to it.

A little proviso though. The man should have to file that he refuses to take responsibility for the child within the time period available to the mother for an abortion. In other words, he can't accept a child and then after it is born decide he no longer wishes to pay child support.

I am pro-choice for both sexes.