I don't see how what you describe could possibly equalise anything: how do you equalise the fact that the woman is the only one who gets pregnant? The final decision on abortion has to be hers and hers alone because the alternative is compulsory pregnancy and childbirth.
Is what you're describing legislation to cover the situation where the woman decides against abortion and the man wants her to have one?
"A similar liberty"? WTF are you talking about? The situation of the woman and the man are not similar or anything like it and never can be, unless you are suggesting he should have the right to have the pregnancy terminated against her wishes. And that wouldn't really be "similar" either because she's the pregnant one and he's not.
Oh OK, that's sort of what I thought OP was saying but I was trying to get her/him to be clearer.
So there's an unplanned pregnancy, she doesn't want to have a termination but he wants her to, so he signs something giving up any rights and presumably she undertakes not to ask for child support? I supposed that's fair, except to the child who may want to know who his/her father is at some stage.
Here's an interesting and slightly relevant story from the 60's: it was a common practice back then when unmarried pregnant women later took the father to court for child maintenance, for him to claim she was promiscuous and had had sex with all his mates, who would come along to court and back up the story. The intention was to make her appear a slut who had no idea who the baby's father was and cases would be dismissed. A very enlightened magistrate I knew, decades before his time, solved this problem by telling the bloke & his mates that in that case he would divide the maintenance for the child equally between them. Good one, eh?
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I don't see how what you describe could possibly equalise anything: how do you equalise the fact that the woman is the only one who gets pregnant? The final decision on abortion has to be hers and hers alone because the alternative is compulsory pregnancy and childbirth.
Is what you're describing legislation to cover the situation where the woman decides against abortion and the man wants her to have one?
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basically, its where if the girl keeps the baby when they guy doesn't want her to, it gives him an out.
The idea is if the girls can choose to get rid of the baby without the father having a say in it then the father should be given a similar liberty.
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"A similar liberty"? WTF are you talking about? The situation of the woman and the man are not similar or anything like it and never can be, unless you are suggesting he should have the right to have the pregnancy terminated against her wishes. And that wouldn't really be "similar" either because she's the pregnant one and he's not.
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It's just a law were the father can sign away legal rights and obligations to the child if the child wasn't planned.
It's an "abortion" in the sense that he's terminating his responsibilty to the pregnancy.
Of course I'm not suggesting to forcibly terminate the pregnancy, anyways I was just asking people about their opinion of the proposed law.
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Oh OK, that's sort of what I thought OP was saying but I was trying to get her/him to be clearer.
So there's an unplanned pregnancy, she doesn't want to have a termination but he wants her to, so he signs something giving up any rights and presumably she undertakes not to ask for child support? I supposed that's fair, except to the child who may want to know who his/her father is at some stage.
Here's an interesting and slightly relevant story from the 60's: it was a common practice back then when unmarried pregnant women later took the father to court for child maintenance, for him to claim she was promiscuous and had had sex with all his mates, who would come along to court and back up the story. The intention was to make her appear a slut who had no idea who the baby's father was and cases would be dismissed. A very enlightened magistrate I knew, decades before his time, solved this problem by telling the bloke & his mates that in that case he would divide the maintenance for the child equally between them. Good one, eh?