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It may take me a post to get properly involved in this, so I'll start with my own views, none of which haven't been voiced by someone:
"Male productive rights"? Well, if your wife/girlfriend doesn't want a child and you do...I recommend you get another partner. Obviously that's not an easy thing to do, but the decision over children is something that's within the realm of a relationship. I agree with the point that a woman should never be forced legally to carry a child for nine months. That's where I disagree with you, SiN.
Somewhat similarly, if the woman does want a child and the man doesn't...let him sign some form of legal paper stating that he has no financial responsibility to the child or mother. Like above, if your husband/boyfriend doesn't want to have a child, you made a poor choice of a partner. Better luck finding a guy who wants a kid next time. No man should be put in the position of having to abandon his education/career because a woman chose to deceive him into fatherhood and not give him the chance to withdraw financially.
I'll agree that it'd be a shame to have children without paying fathers, but we already have tens of thousands of those. At least we know they'd have one parent who wanted them badly enough that they were willing to shoulder the financial responsibility and not put off having the child. That's more than we can say for many, many children who're up for adoption.
Also, I think it's interesting that nobody's taken to expanding the topic to talking about homosexual couples and what to do with financial responsibilities if one partner wants to adopt a child and the other doesn't. There's no "it's my body, chauvanistic man-boy" argument. Again, my view is that one should have the choice to opt out financially.
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