CaféAuLait
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CaféAuLait;8566806 said:Yes, deadbeat Conservative dads. I don't see Liberal Dads trying to make the argument that they should be allowed to "opt out" of financially supporting their own children simply because the women they are getting pregnant have the option to abort their pregnancy.
Which 'conservative dads' are you speaking of? I am curious. Your argument is just as silly as me saying those women who chose to abort are "deadbeat women" since they ARE "allowed to "opt out" of financially supporting their own children" by way of choice. Abortion, morning after pill, adoption, safe haven, etc.
Are you trying to shame a man for wanting the same rights as a female when it comes to choice about an unborn child? A female can opt out for any reason she wishes. A man on the other hand, must abide by her wish. Equal rights under the law, yes or no? Or is it equal rights when women have the only choice in the matter. Even when a man wants to go through with the pregnancy they can't. And they can't decide not to after a woman has made her choice.
Ms. West wrote it very eloquently "The right to feel the weight of decisions without being sheltered by gender is one that has not been fully realized, and some women in the pro-life/pro-choice debate seem to negligently cast aside the opinions of potential fathers as intrusive, irrelevant and patriarchal".
The people on this forum, for example ... the ones championing a man's right to be a deadbeat dad and escape his financial responsibilities for his own child -- are Conservatives. And it's borne largely as a punishment to women for having the right to abort a pregnancy. It's the age old "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," mentality.
And a man will never have the same rights as a woman for the simple fact that we are biologically engineered differently. There is no law which can balance that natural inequity. Men are not capable of getting pregnant, whereas, women are. So the two genders are built with the inherent inequality which will never allow any man to be on an equal level as a woman.
That's why the absolute answer to this "opt out" solution for deadbeat Conservative dads, which I'm fairly certain I saw towards the beginning of this thread and every one like it, is ....... when men can get pregnant, they will have the same option to abort their pregnancy in the exact same fashion women currently have.
You keep wanting to make this a conservative issue. The articles I posted are from LIBERAL websites and journalists, ( TIME And Huffington Post) FEMALES, in fact, questioning this inequality. I know I am different from a male in many ways. I know I can bear children while he cant. This has nothing to do with pro-choice or anti-choice. It is about the issue if a woman can abort a child because they are financially unable to care for a child a man should have the same choice.
If we are demanding equality in todays day and age, then we must be willing to do the same for our male counterparts in my opinion. We make a decision to have sex and we KNOW what the outcome is just as much as a male does. We can make any choice we want, they cant and that hardly seems fair to me.