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Originally Posted by bermuDa
I think that this topic treads a fine legal line, and it has nothing to do with responsibility.
Granting the father of an unborn baby rights over the decision to abort or not undermines the basis for which abortion is a legal practice. By giving the sperm donor parental rights, you are in effect intoducing three entities into the situation: the mother, the father, and the fetus, which is now subject to a custody battle before it can even survive on its own. By admitting that there is a "child" involved, the issue is no longer a women's body and her right to choose.
although I think the decision to abort should involve the father to some extent, I'm still pro-choice, and in order to keep legal abortion legal we have to keep the father out of the equation under the current precedence.
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I agree, for the most part. A father's legal right to the fetus exists only within the purview granted by the mother, because the status of the fetus lies solely within her control. It's her body, and therefore her decision as to whether or not she wants to go through with the process of birth. After a baby is born, then both parents are involved, but until that point in time, it's solely the mother's ballgame, unless someone wants to argue that it is a woman's duty to act as a brood-mare for her husband, regardless of her opinion on the matter?