McPhee
As a gay man, logically, I probably shouldn't have any say in any woman's pregnancy-- that's not what I'm asking.
I'm asking for consistency in society's value system when it comes to human life. Is that really so much? I mean, honestly.
Absolutely correct though in that the double standard does exist that men have no way to opt out of pregnancy without seeming like a deadbeat. I mean, when you look at it women have more control in the pregnancy because they do carry the child, but should they have so much control that they get to make a choice that probably will have a negative effect on the man too (if he actually wanted the child)? Not to mention terminating another life.
I know I may seem like a "typical" pro-lifer saying "think of the man", but when I'm in any situation, I also think of everyone else's feelings, not just my own. And if it's a child to the man that a woman is having sex with, and she has an abortion that he doesn't approve of, then she did kill his child (at least in his mind). That would cause me some hardcore trauma.
I'm asking for consistency in society's value system when it comes to human life. Is that really so much? I mean, honestly.
Absolutely correct though in that the double standard does exist that men have no way to opt out of pregnancy without seeming like a deadbeat. I mean, when you look at it women have more control in the pregnancy because they do carry the child, but should they have so much control that they get to make a choice that probably will have a negative effect on the man too (if he actually wanted the child)? Not to mention terminating another life.
I know I may seem like a "typical" pro-lifer saying "think of the man", but when I'm in any situation, I also think of everyone else's feelings, not just my own. And if it's a child to the man that a woman is having sex with, and she has an abortion that he doesn't approve of, then she did kill his child (at least in his mind). That would cause me some hardcore trauma.
