Originally posted by Benzene

Only one person has to carry the emotional and physical toll that comes with being pregnant.

If the man's feelings are hurt, too bad. Biology didn't make pregnancy an equal proposition, so I don't see why the decision has to be mutual. It's not as if pregnancy can be shared.

If the father wants the child and the mother doesn't (this is all hypothetical of course...I've yet to actually hear a case like this), then you have a stalemate. In that case, the mother's decision should take priority, because in the end it is HER body.

Originally posted by zach

I'm not being serious (just feeding the troll), but you could consider falling down the stares to be neglect, as you weren't paying attention to what you were doing.

Originally posted by Ties

And I'm not here for making abortion illegal, I'm just in the subcategory that encourages it as a final solution.

Originally posted by Muggwa

Okay fine. Still. It's not his place.

Ultimately it's not his body; it's not his challenge; it's not his decision. As long as the father has the power to physically block himself off from the situation and leave the burden of raising a child up to the mother alone, he has no say in her choice of whether or not to abort.

Even if this type of situation isn't as common as the one you're setting up, one can't just go around setting exceptions. This is what's fair to the mother and child.

Originally posted by zach

Obviously rape is an exception. I'm talking of say, a couple; the woman does not want to have the child, but the father does badly. Even though the woman would be carrying the child, is it really her right to terminate the child? It has to be their decision together. He might convince her, or she might convince him. But either way, it's not 100% the woman's say. If the father is in the picture, at least. If someone rapes her, he clearly has no right to say anything in the matter.