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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (145506)	11/4/2008 5:26:08 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 173976

Once you get beyond the pregnancy, its not so much that its easier for men to abandon their responsibilities as much as they are more likely to be willing to do so. Women who don't want to handle their responsibility as a mother can pass off that responsibility to someone else through adoption. Also if the man cares more about the responsibility than the women she could dump the child on him. So its not so much that's its easier for the man, unless perhaps you mean "emotionally easier" (and even then its hardly a universal thing). With abortion of course women can decide to eliminate the responsibility by eliminating the child, or they can decide to impose (at least the financial side of) the responsibility on the man by forcing him to pay child support. But while issues of parental responsibility are important, they aren't really the core of the abortion issue. If you assume the fetus has the right to live, and generally has human rights you get one determination on abortion, if you assume its "a meaningless blob of cells", or "just part of the mother", you get another determination. Thoughts about parental responsibility don't touch on that key point. They are important whatever your determination on the key point is, but the key point really decides the issue.