To end abortion, fix sexuality: George Mason professor

lsn ^ | Ben Johnson

[papertyger]

There’s no dependent to transfer responsibility for if there’s no pregnancy.

Women prize security. They have that now with their “choice” of abortion, or legally forcing their partner to finance their decision to give birth.

Take away that legally mandated security, and they will act in their own best interests. We have failed to eliminate the former, so the obvious choice is going after the latter.

[MWestMom]

Any woman who believes that a man who supports her “right to have an abortion” is interested in her human rights is really stupid.

[TropicanaRose]

Thanks for sharing your thought process. You haven’t sold me on the idea, but I think I have a better idea where you’re coming from.

I agree that abstinence before marriage & faithfulness within marriage is the foundation of the pro-life position, but not every pro-lifer has thought the issue through to that conclusion yet.

I still think allowing men to get a paper abortion to avoid supporting their babies = fewer resources for the baby, unless you’re offering to pay the abortive dads’ share, which leaves the advocate of such a law vulnerable to the charge that they do not care about babies once they’re born. Other than the e*trade baby, babies consume more resources than they generate, so if the dad does not contribute, the full burden falls on the mom, & in our society when the burden falls solely on the mom, Uncle Sugar (using resources confiscated from taxpayers) quite often picks up the slack. While it is not fair that dads have no say in whether or not the mother of their unborn children has an abortion or not, it’s also unfair that taxpayers who have never met either mom or dad, much less had sex with them, are on the hook for supporting their offspring.

IMO the only way women will ever be back in the same jeopardy they were before easy abortion would be if (1) the welfare state is dissolved & (2) chastity becomes a virtue that people value again. Although maybe if all these men who are would-be abortive dads would first ask every woman they are about to have sex with to sign a form waiving any rights to child support in case the sex results in a pregnancy, that might cut down on some of the promiscuity ~ for those men, anyway.