User blog comment:Mrdaimion/Serious Sam Issue 1 - Abortion/@comment-1956487-20120205035913/@comment-1874924-20120205045634

I'm afraid it's not that simple, Lal. Consider the case where one partner wants the baby and the other doesn't. Let's further suppose that they behaved responsibly but had a "protection failure".

If the man wants the baby and the woman doesn't, then the woman gets an abortion because she's much more affected by the decision. That's simple enough. But what if it's the woman who wants the baby?

If the woman's right to choose is the last word, then the woman has the baby and the man gets the legal obligation to support it--with no say at all in the matter. In other words, the man has been reduced to a glorified sperm donor/pocketbook with NO rights. What about his right to choose? The other side of the coin.

If we accord the man any rights in this scenario, that raises the specter of the woman possibly being forced to have an abortion against her will; but if we don't, then the man is effectively placed in a state of slavery at the woman's decree. Am I correct in assuming that you would find not one, but BOTH of these outcomes absolutely unacceptable?

Making the woman's right to choose the last word is, regrettably, incompatible with the concept of equal rights unless you're willing to absolve the man of responsibility--and I don't think I need to tell you the potential problems there.