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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.