Posted on 04/12/2007 9:22:51 AM PDT by metalmanx2j
I have a friend who is in a very difficult situation. He had impregnated his girlfriend and she is planning on getting an abortion. He is vehemently opposed to this and is willing to pay for anything but an abortion.
Doesn’t the father have any rights in this? Shouldn’t his wants and actions be considered in a court of law? Can anyone site a court case or record that has some kind of precident in a father’s rights?
This is just sick that if he wants the baby, HIS BABY, whom he helped create, he has no control over his child’s birth.
If anyone can help me and him out, please direct me.
Thank you.
No.
None.
What if it was the other way around, and the father wanted her to get an abortion? Should he have any say?
Why is he just willing to pay?? If this is his girlfriend did he consider offering marriage and a stable family for the baby??
If a man is concerned about the possibility of his child being aborted, he shouldn’t impregnate any woman he doesn’t know well enough to be confident how she would handle it. He has no say at all, legally.
Sorry, he’s screwed.
Is this scrappleface or the onion?
He has no rights in this matter.
But of course, these things should be dicussed during foreplay, if not before.
Nope. And it's a damned travesty.
He might want to sue her in civil court for breach of contract.
No
Shouldn’t his wants and actions be considered in a court of law?
Yes, but it won't happen.
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If a unborn child is legally an object, a non-person, then he should absolutely have a say.
Perhaps, potential "fathers" might consider first courting their brides-to-be, then getting engaged, later married and lastly, planning their family out of desire to be a parent, not merely a sperm donor.
Unfortunately, in today's world, even that would not give the "father rights" as the NOW, NARAL, PRO-ABORTION crowd, do not believe that fathers have any rights at all only the mother-to-be, or should I say "fetus-expectant woman."
Has he tried asking her to marry him?
He should have a say, but he doesn’t. About 10 years ago, in the Chicago area, a man shot his pregnant girlfriend, killing the baby, and he was accused of murder. If she got an abortion, killing the baby, she wouldn’t have been accused of murder, except from conservative, pro-life people. The baby’s father killed the baby the only way that he could, and he was charged with a crime.
If anyone could help you, it would be these people.
http://www.pregnancycenters.org/contact.html
Good luck. This happened to my own son. I pray for the mother’s soul every day.
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