the seahorse is the only male animal that gets knocked up
Dear Em & Lo,
The way I see it, there is simply no such concept as male reproductive rights. If your girl gets pregnant and wants to keep the baby, congratulations, you’re a dad! Pay up, sucker. If you want to keep it but she wants to abort it, tough luck — there goes your progeny. The only thing a dude can do is rubber up and screen for sexual partners with similar values.
We get it, the baby’s growing in the woman’s body, and ownership is 9/10ths of the law. But come on, now. There’s got to be some kind of reasonable compromise. I don’t have an easy answer to this, and I doubt anyone else will either. Men will continue to get a raw deal here. But could you open the topic to discussion?
— Cat Amongst the Pigeons
Consider it done! What do you think, do we need male reproductive rights? And if so, what would they be? Let the debate begin (no throwing things, please) in the comments section below.
It seems to me I never hear men want thier child maybe once in a while maybe. Women have abortions usually because they don’t think they can support a baby or thier family friends and the man say it your problem girl. I think there is a lack of responsiablity on all fronts here.Abortion is the abandonment of the mom that leads to the murder of a child because people don’t want to help with a grandchild,niece or nephew or daughter or son.Frankly I am tired of hearing Men want sex without consequence,pleasure with no pain joy with no sorrow life with no death it just doesn’t work that way people.If you don’t want children get a v-sectomy.Birth control fails often even when used properly so man up or zip up, same for the women don’t lay down with a man that can’t Man up if you have a opps baby.Then we won’t be having all these damn fights. A little thinking will solve alot of these issues.
So if a man has procreated with some one he loved and later decided to have a vasectomy for health or any other reason, does that mean his mate has the right to chastise him for his decision?
Pro choice is because it’s the women’s body it is her choice. Responsible men are intitled to a choice involving their body as well?
All of this was covered several thousand years ago when “marriage” was invented.
@The Javelineer … Spot on!
“The child shouldn’t suffer”
Unless the woman decides the child’s suffering and death is less important than her inconvenience.
Toads so kindly said: “Madam L is just a moocher who wants to cheat a man out of his hard-earned money.”
ROTFLMAO!!!! My Man and I have been together and in love for several decades, have four children, own our SECOND house together, and share our lives together each fulling a different role, one as a husband and father and the other as a wife and mother. Sorry you can’t appreciate a good relationship, or understand what one consists of.
I would think if I was going to “cheat” this man, I wouldn’t have waited over 25 years to get around to it.
(Mademoiselle L.)
Did I really just read that the author is relying on WITHDRAWAL as a method of birth control?
It is a very good thing that you and your mate are in agreement…
Yes.
Men should have the right, irrespective of what their female partners choose to do when pregnant, of aborting their parental rights. These rights should mirror exactly the rights Courts have made up for women while pregnant.
For example, if a woman can abort the baby up to the day of birth the man should be able to abort his parental rights up to the day of birth.
Equal rights, baby. Yes, I mean the irony.
Madam L is just a moocher who wants to cheat a man out of his hard-earned money.
This article on societal misandry is a must-read for everyone.
men don’t have the right to have sex. they only have the right not to have sex. when a man inserts his penis into a woman’s vagina, the woman decides whether that act is sex or not. whatever she decides is what is for the man.
men are far behind women in reproductive rights, but i am glad that we are at least starting to raise the question whether men are equal to women. gender equality exclusively proceeds from the assumption of power differentials favoring men, never from those that favor women. discussions on gender equality is anything but equal and so the question of equal rights for men is a small step in a very long journey towards a new focus on the inequities that favor women.
men should have the same rights as women to control their own reproductive destiny. the real burden to a woman that abortion eliminates is often not the 9 months of pregnancy but the lifetime impositions of parenthood that follows. to the extent that abortion isn’t a medical issue but an economic, social, and mental issue, there is no rational justification to deny men the same protections from the same conditions that affect both men and women.
All we need is a reliable male contraception, then men can take back ownership of their bodies.
If it’s a permanent decision to not have children, go for the snip snip. Cheaper than 18 years of child support.
Here’s how it should work.
Women can terminate their parental rights and responsibilities, any time during the legal period for an abortion and any time after that by adoption or “sanctuary laws.”
Men should have the same rights. Any time durign the period an abortion would be legal for the woman, a man should be able to give up permanently all legal rights and responsibilities to the unborn child.
The pregnant women is free to keep or abort the baby, or later give it up for adoption.
IMHO, this is the only just way to give equal reproductive rights to both women and men.
Agreed! 🙂
Oops! Correction: “…with such stated up-front…