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Originally Posted by jewels
It's so easy to say "what about the father", but how many teenage single fathers do you know? How many adult single men do you know that have custody of a child, other than after a divorce? We all know about the babies of single mothers who end up neglected because she struggles to earn a living while he takes off, shirking the parental rights he claimed.
Maybe when we start to see more men step up to the plate, things will change, but at this point I'm not seeing it. Equality ain't always 50/50.
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So that makes it right to just say that a father HAS no rights in the decision? I was a single father for a long time. When I separated from my wife I took both of my daughters who were 3 and 5 at the time, one of which she wanted to abort by the way, and they now are both very well rounded at 14 and 17. Actually the 17 year old is currently in Basic training this summer, and will be attending UT Austin, and my youngest is already on her way to attend Texas A&M. So think for a minute, if I had agreed that a father has no rights to the choice of an abortion, one of those two beautiful girls would not be alive today! Still think a man has no rights to make a decision on abortion? Then come tell my daughters that one of them was a mistake and should not have been allowed to be born!