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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (5821)2/14/2001 2:42:08 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
The usual argument for the
current state of the law is that the mother has to carry the child (and thus can
choose if she wants to carry it or not), and that once it is born it then
becomes a person with a right to be finacially supported by its parents until
it becomes an adult.

Yes, that's the current argument.

But is it fair to the man who may inadvertently (maybe through the failure of birth control or rarely, though it does happen, through the mother lying about her use of birth control with the intent of getting pregnant against the father's desire) father a child he doesn't want and the support of whom will seriously degrade most of his life, when the mother has the choice to avoid such a circumstance but the father doesn't?
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