A father is on the hook for 18 years whether he wants the child or not. The mother can shirk her own responsibilties to that child if she decides to kill it.
Our nation is screwed.
This is, IMO, the biggest reason why fewer people are having children.
It shouldnt matter whether he wants the child or not, if he helped create the child, he should help support the child. So should the woman.
Given current administrative rules,
then the father has the right to choose too.
He can chose to pay for 1/2 the abortion and not ever see the child again.
The price of fatherhood is 1/2 the cost of abortion.
What this is REALLY ABOUT is the FEDERAL MATCHING FUNDS.
For every father OR MOTHER in the child support collection system, there are federal matching funds to be had.
The states have a pecuniary interest in keeping families broken.