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So let's assume we can give men the right to opt out of child support. Can we also assume that the man is solely responsible for the child if the mother doesn't want it and the father doesn't want an abortion? If a man has a right to opt out of child support, the woman should be offered such rights as well.
And the opting out is not on equal grounds. A woman's decision to carry a baby to full term is not the same as a man's decision to not support the child.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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