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Ruby ridinghood wrote: Utter solitude wrote:

Ruby ridinghood wrote:

Most abortions happen because of somene forcing or coercing a woman into it. If a father wants his baby then he should be able  to legally keep his child from being aborted. If a women really doesn't want a baby then she doesn't have to get pregnant in the first place. Oh my. Your first statement is blatantly not true. I can tell you from experience volunteering in a clinic that most abortions are women's whose birth control has failed and who feel they do not want or cannot support a child, or the occasional woman who didn't remember the night she got pregnant. Yes, there are some who are talked into it, but to say that most are coerced is just wrong.

If you "legally keep his child from being aborted", that means you are legally requiring a woman to carry a child. That's unethical. If a man really wants a baby, he needs to discuss that with the woman first, not force her to keep it.

In an ideal world, unplanned pregnancies wouldn't happen in the first place, and every couple would discuss what they would do in such a situation before hand and follow through. However, this isn't an ideal world. Condoms break, birth control fails, even sterilization can fail. To force someone to carry a baby they don't want is just awful. Over half of abortions are because the woman feels forced or coerced by someone she knows or someone working where she went to get help with the pregnancy. You can't force a woman to stay pregnant, what you can do is to get her to do what is right for her child instead of just herself. If a man wants to do the right thing and be a father, then that should be his right. No woman should be able as unethical as take a man's child away just because she dosn't want to be a mother. No one's arguing that it is morally questionable to abort a baby that the father wants, but let's be honest, the fathers of most aborted babies are not wanting to be involved with the child, or didn't intend for the woman to get pregnant in the first place.