Should a man be considered in an abortion?

Ideally his thoughts on the matter should be taken into consideration, but ultimately it's the woman's choice as it's her body.

If I walked up to a baby machine and pressed start and a baby popped out I would have a moral obligation to that child. Because it was my actions that brought that child into the world in the first place. I couldn't claim I had nothing to do with it. Or that I had no responsibility for it. Neither is my responsibility shirked if I said if only I had a hammer I could have smashed up the machine before the baby popped out but the machine foreman wouldn't let me.

In the case you advocate the guardian of the child, the mother, is protecting the child from you just as the foreman did for me. This does not shirk off our moral responsibility to the child. In fact our obligation is increased because we must make restitution to the mother and child for our evil intent.

However I can agree that it can be a double standard but only when the woman wants to abort but the father wants to keep the child. Does the father have no say in whether his own child will be killed? So it really just shows how contradictory abortion is because a father of a newborn child would most certainly have a say in the life of his own child. But, of course he could only have a right to protect the child, not a right to harm the child. But, because abortion happens to be in the womb he has no right to protect the child? That is contradictory.

Sex without consequences is a delusion. Abortion is a denial of reality and it is choosing the delusion option, and a father wanting to abandon his newborn kid is also the delusion option. The difference is that abortion unjustly kills an innocent life.

And I will just throw in that if the father had any authority in the decision it could only be morally acceptable if he had the authority to decide to keep the baby from being aborted only as an act of preventing injustice to his child. Because, it would not be morally permissible to have someone else force you to abort your baby. That would be an act of injustice against both the mother and the child. They do that in China but that is opening a whole can of immoral worms.

Don't abort. You know you can't kill your own precious baby, your flesh and blood. How would you feel on the day your baby is scheduled to be born, knowing that you paid to snuff out his/her innocent life. You will be haunted by regrets, what ifs, and emotional pain for the rest of your life. How would you ever explain to your future children that you killed their older sibling if you have more children?

Abortion is killing your precious little baby. A baby at his/her most vulnerable and needing your protection.

No woman ever held her precious newborn and regretted not killing it.

Read some stories of women who have done this and regretted it for life.

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Praying for you and your baby! God has a plan for the life of your baby and for your life. He has given you this baby for a reason.

Babies aren't as expensive as you might think. Basically food, diapers, and clothes (which you can buy second hand or hand-me-downs for free from friends). You'll be a great mom! It's normal to be scared a bit, even for 30 year old women who are married, but once your baby is born parenting will come naturally, and you will feel stronger love than you have ever felt.

You may have some shame and embarrassment for a short while, but you will have your child for the rest of your life, what a blessing. Is it more important what others think of you in the short term, or what you think of yourself in the long term?

Be warned, guys often pressure girls into abortions before they dump them, because then they don't get left with child support for 20 years. Don't think that abortion will save your relationship, if anything it will damage it irreparably.

I say yes he should still have to pay for the baby. Its not like its a car she decided to buy its a child that he had as much hand in her having as she did. Your not giving money to the women your helping support the child that you created. Like Ive said before, if you have sex then your concenting to have a child. As a man I see this as the only logical conclusion, unless you define logic as "whatever is my personal self interest." I'm so tired of people treating sex as just a recreational sport with no responsiblity. Sex is ment for reproduction first and formost, There are always consquences to sex.

It's a hard question because let's say he doesn t pay, but later he gets close to the child and wants to bepart of his or her life, does he deserve that right? Everythingt is about rights. If he feels no responsiblitiies at all towards the child, there is something pretty inhumane about him because really, it 's one thing to end the pregnancy in the early stage ( 1 or 2 months) but if the pregnancy is not terminated, I would want to be part of the upbringing of that child; whether I am the dad or the mom.

However it is the mother who needs to make the final decision on whether she wants to carry 9 months a baby whom no one wants.

I think the man should be considered, yes but there is only so much say he can have. All the man did was put it in her and they were probably not using protection. She is the one that has to carry it and when you had sex is when you consented to accept all consequences. Sorry for you but sex makes babies. People who aren't responsible in bed will have to be responsible in the end.

It's quite frankly a moot point for those of us who aren't too much in favour of the whole abortion thing anyway.

It's quite true the woman has to shoulder he burden of pregnancy and that it affects her first and foremost is the main thing, but men are also one of the baby's parents so he should be considered perhaps. But again abortions should only really be considered in the cases of very serious medical risks in my view; it's not appropriate as a lifestyle decision.

And any suggestions that men can have no view on the issue, politically or ideologically speaking, I reject.

The man's opinion should be considered, but unfortunately the final decision isn't up to him. This is why I'll be educating my sons about their responsibilities when it comes to sex and the possible repercussions. Teen boys need to be fully aware of what's involved if their girlfriend ends up becoming pregnant.

I wish more parents would explain all of this to their kids, whether they're boys or girls. (If you take a look at some of the questions in the pregnancy/parenting section, it's really disturbing how little some teenagers know about sex and how it all works.) People who are responsible and educated about sex aren't as likely to have to even think about the topic of abortion.

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Back to your question, though, refusing to financially support a child doesn't just hurt the mother, it hurts the child, too. Once the child has been born, it's up to both parents to support him/her.

I think there needs to be some kind of document a man can fill out before ever having sex, and for it to be eligible the person he's having sex with must sign it as well. Otherwise it's invalid.

The paper will say that he wants sexual relations with that person, but he is not looking to cause pregnancy, and he does not want a child.

If they become pregnant, he wants absolutely nothing to do with the child.

This of course means he is never allowed around the child either.

That way, everyone is on the same page from the very start. No chance for bull, no pulling the rug from underneath anyone.

When a woman becomes pregnant, the ONLY consideration that should be given is how to provide the woman proper medical care during her pregnancy, and how to provide the child with as much as possible to raise him/her in the healthiest way possible. And health for the infant/child means spiritual health as much as physical/medical/academic "health". God Bless you.

The issue being that the woman carries the baby in her body. Let's also face it that most men do not have a clue how to properly look after a newborn. They simply do not have that instinct. Most men who win custody of their children end up passing it onto another woman, usually a new partner or their Mothers.

I think that we need to make abortion accessible for rape and abuse victims, however it's important as a society to discourage women from having abortions after having consensual sex and discourage men from abandoning their responsibilities to children as active male role models and providers. I personally think that if a couple conceive a child together they should just marry or at least start living like a married couple and should bring up the child together with proper gender roles intact. Either that or don't have sex. Don't have sex with someone you don't want a baby with, simple. I don't think that casual sex should be practised and I think that it should be discouraged a lot more than it is. Today we live in a 'free' and 'anything goes' type of society where people are selfish hedonists and they just do what they want. It doesn't work.