My Sperm... My Choice, too? Please?!
I love Roe vs. Wade. It was one of the huge liberal victories and was possibly one of the most important occurrences in the entire women's rights movement. I would never ask that it be overturned.
That said...
Fathers' legal rights have, unfortunately, stagnated. In this country it would be totally legal for a woman to provide a purposefully broken condom, get pregnant, have a baby, and possibly even get child support... and the father can do absolutely nothing. Likewise, if a man and woman make love and the woman gets pregnant... she can have it aborted whenever she wants. The father doesn't have a say.
I know men aren't pregnant. I can't carry a child to term in my womb. Does that really mean that we are not a part of the process? It's odd to fight for men's rights, I'll admit, but this is a conversation that needs to happen.
Are fathers just sperm machines?
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