Arguments For Abortion Essay
Father Should Have Right to voices his opinion on Abortion Armin A. Brott once said "A woman can legally deprive a man of his right to become a parent or force him to become one against his will." I know a gentleman that is exactly what happened to him, when his former girlfriend became pregnant with his child. She knew how much he loved kids and badly he wanted to became father. His former girlfriend knew that how desperately he wanted his own kids one day, and she took advantage of that. She pretended to love my friend and to love the child, so she could get all the things she wants. To keep her happy, he did everything she told him to do. When all her demands were fulfilled, she decided there is no reason to pretend love him and their child anymore. So, she got an abortion in the end and left him heartbroken. In a few minutes, she destroyed everything my friend hope for. If she did not want the child, he could have raised the child by himself. She was only thinking about herself, she did not once thinks about the man who loved her. She never gave a thought how would he feel when he would find out about the abortion. My friend told me after abortion happened
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he felt like murder for letting his child die. After hearing that man story, it made me think how unfair it is that only women have right to make a decision about abortion. When it comes to the abortion, father should voice his opinion on whether to keep baby or not. It takes two people to make a child, so the decision of keeping the child or aborting the child should be made by both parents. We also never once think how abortion would affect father mentally. How would father feel about not able to protect his child? Allowing both parents to make a decision on abortion means each parent should be allowed to voice their opinion and the decision. Sadly, society tends to suggest that abortion concerns only women because men are not the ones who get pregnant. In some countries men have no legal on his child, unstill child is born. On one side men are told to take responsibility of child that he did not want. On other side, men are legally denied the right to speak against an abortion of their child. Women should not hold power solely to make decisions about abortion. Both parents should have equal rights in both cases kid, when the child is in the mother’s womb and after the child is born. It is shocking male consent is not required by law, when his partner wants to get an abortion.
While discussing abortion we usually talk about the mother and unborn child. We never think about the father’s opinion. A father of an unborn child may be against his partner of having an abortion or he may not support his partner in pregnancy and want her to get an abortion, either way his opinion on abortion does not matters. Even though male consent is not required, there have been discussion whether or not the father should even have the right to be notified about the abortion. The father rights issue has been already address on Supreme Court case of Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, where court decided that the father does not need to be notify about his former partner having abortion
(Baker). The author Matt Allen wrote an article called “What Are a Father’s Rights to Prevent an Abortion?” Matt Allen said best way to stop your partner from happening abortion is to educate your partner about consequences of abortion. Matt Allen stated “Abortion is a serious matter that one should make only after becoming fully informed of all of the options and effects.” He further stated that try convincing to go through her pregnancy. After she giving birth, make her voluntarily give all the parental to the baby father, if she still does not want the kid. Which can be done in most states. Matt Allen said you need to three things to establish paternity. The first thing father should do is sign his name on birth certificate. The second thing father should do is to go to the Administrative agencies (such as Child Support Enforcement). They will do DNA to prove you are the father. The last thing father should do is getting a court order, so you will get child custody (Allen). Assume both people had consensual sex, then both people had an equal contribution in the conception. It only follows that both should have equal rights in the reasonabilities associated with that conception. If both wish to bring the pregnancy to term or terminate it, then there is no problem, but both should have equal say in the case. In my opinion the other reason why should father gets right on abortion to voices his opinion is because us women always want equal rights as men have. Letting men rights on abortion is good example equal rights. Mother having solely power our her unborn is just affecting father, but also affect how view equality. “Many say it’s ‘their body, their choice’: it is women who get pregnant, women who have abortions, and only women who suffer emotionally after an abortion. Efurd beg to differ. Efurd shares her own experience with abortion and with counseling people post-abortion. Her experience demonstrates that fathers can be emotionally affected by abortions as much as mothers. Abortion is not a women’s issue. It’s a human issue, with devastating consequences for men and women alike (Efurd). Men often face intense feelings of guilt and sadness as a result of their partner’s abortion. The anger and frustration of not being able to protect and provide for his unborn baby because of abortion. Men are often seen as protector of family. How would men when he would not be able his see his kids live their life. The guilt will kill him for not being able to do his job to protect his family, because that what is society except from them. Debby Efurd wrote an article “Should Men Have a Voice in Debate over the Abortion? Yes, Here’s Why” in which she indicated after counseling numbers of people who survive from Post-Abortion Healing, she can tell men suffers as much as women. She believes because abortion is not women issue. It is a human issue, which traumatic both men and women. She further indicated that there are millions of fathers who mourn that they could not protect their children. Debby Efurd wrote in her article how one of her patience felt about abortion. Her patience stated “Long after the abortion was carried out, the emotional fallout continues, at least for me. I still occasionally have sleepless nights, thinking about what we did and why.... Who was the child we never knew? Would he have been my son? What would he or she be like today, at 20 years of age?... The pain of that decision and the regret, linger.” This statement indicated that men do suffer from abortion too (Efurd). Jessica Valenti wrote an article called “If you think men should help decide if a woman gets an abortion, just shut up.” In article author expresses her opinion why men should mind their own business my it’s come to the abortion. Jessica Valenti stated that women are not children, who need permission from their husbands to do something. Further, she stated the reason why men want right to make decision abortion is because they want to control their women. Jessica Valenti believes that giving men right to control women body, can diminishes women parenthood and her autonomy (Valenti). The article Jessica Valenti wrote has some points that are not valent. The first point that is irrelevant when she stated that allowing men to make decision about abortion would diminishes women parenthood and her autonomy. Listing to her men opinion about abortion would not make anyone less of woman. Instead looking like less of women, she would look selfless women in front of her partner. It will show her men that she cares about his emotion too. The last point that is irrelevant when she stated men only want right to make decision about abortion is because they want to control their body. The reason why men want to be involve in decision of whether their partner should get abortion or not is because the child in his partner womb is his too. Why people forget it takes two people to make a child. If a couple becomes pregnant the woman has 100 percent of the choice to keep the baby or have an abortion. If the man wants the baby ant the woman does not the man is out of luck. If the man does not want the baby and the woman does the baby. Then man has no choice but to pay for child support for the next eighteen years. Why force men to pay for something he does not want. That why involving both partners when making a decision of whether get an abortion or not, is a right way to go. Why? Because half of DNA contributed to the baby is his. So, father does have a right to decide whether should come into this world or not. Just giving the mother sole responsibility to decide is unfair for the dad. We never give any chance to the father to express his thoughts on abortion, even though the child his too. Just because it women body does not mean she is solely responsible for the decision. Men and women both have equal responsibilities once the child is born, so why not involve men in decision making.
he felt like murder for letting his child die. After hearing that man story, it made me think how unfair it is that only women have right to make a decision about abortion. When it comes to the abortion, father should voice his opinion on whether to keep baby or not. It takes two people to make a child, so the decision of keeping the child or aborting the child should be made by both parents. We also never once think how abortion would affect father mentally. How would father feel about not able to protect his child? Allowing both parents to make a decision on abortion means each parent should be allowed to voice their opinion and the decision. Sadly, society tends to suggest that abortion concerns only women because men are not the ones who get pregnant. In some countries men have no legal on his child, unstill child is born. On one side men are told to take responsibility of child that he did not want. On other side, men are legally denied the right to speak against an abortion of their child. Women should not hold power solely to make decisions about abortion. Both parents should have equal rights in both cases kid, when the child is in the mother’s womb and after the child is born. It is shocking male consent is not required by law, when his partner wants to get an abortion.
While discussing abortion we usually talk about the mother and unborn child. We never think about the father’s opinion. A father of an unborn child may be against his partner of having an abortion or he may not support his partner in pregnancy and want her to get an abortion, either way his opinion on abortion does not matters. Even though male consent is not required, there have been discussion whether or not the father should even have the right to be notified about the abortion. The father rights issue has been already address on Supreme Court case of Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, where court decided that the father does not need to be notify about his former partner having abortion
(Baker). The author Matt Allen wrote an article called “What Are a Father’s Rights to Prevent an Abortion?” Matt Allen said best way to stop your partner from happening abortion is to educate your partner about consequences of abortion. Matt Allen stated “Abortion is a serious matter that one should make only after becoming fully informed of all of the options and effects.” He further stated that try convincing to go through her pregnancy. After she giving birth, make her voluntarily give all the parental to the baby father, if she still does not want the kid. Which can be done in most states. Matt Allen said you need to three things to establish paternity. The first thing father should do is sign his name on birth certificate. The second thing father should do is to go to the Administrative agencies (such as Child Support Enforcement). They will do DNA to prove you are the father. The last thing father should do is getting a court order, so you will get child custody (Allen). Assume both people had consensual sex, then both people had an equal contribution in the conception. It only follows that both should have equal rights in the reasonabilities associated with that conception. If both wish to bring the pregnancy to term or terminate it, then there is no problem, but both should have equal say in the case. In my opinion the other reason why should father gets right on abortion to voices his opinion is because us women always want equal rights as men have. Letting men rights on abortion is good example equal rights. Mother having solely power our her unborn is just affecting father, but also affect how view equality. “Many say it’s ‘their body, their choice’: it is women who get pregnant, women who have abortions, and only women who suffer emotionally after an abortion. Efurd beg to differ. Efurd shares her own experience with abortion and with counseling people post-abortion. Her experience demonstrates that fathers can be emotionally affected by abortions as much as mothers. Abortion is not a women’s issue. It’s a human issue, with devastating consequences for men and women alike (Efurd). Men often face intense feelings of guilt and sadness as a result of their partner’s abortion. The anger and frustration of not being able to protect and provide for his unborn baby because of abortion. Men are often seen as protector of family. How would men when he would not be able his see his kids live their life. The guilt will kill him for not being able to do his job to protect his family, because that what is society except from them. Debby Efurd wrote an article “Should Men Have a Voice in Debate over the Abortion? Yes, Here’s Why” in which she indicated after counseling numbers of people who survive from Post-Abortion Healing, she can tell men suffers as much as women. She believes because abortion is not women issue. It is a human issue, which traumatic both men and women. She further indicated that there are millions of fathers who mourn that they could not protect their children. Debby Efurd wrote in her article how one of her patience felt about abortion. Her patience stated “Long after the abortion was carried out, the emotional fallout continues, at least for me. I still occasionally have sleepless nights, thinking about what we did and why.... Who was the child we never knew? Would he have been my son? What would he or she be like today, at 20 years of age?... The pain of that decision and the regret, linger.” This statement indicated that men do suffer from abortion too (Efurd). Jessica Valenti wrote an article called “If you think men should help decide if a woman gets an abortion, just shut up.” In article author expresses her opinion why men should mind their own business my it’s come to the abortion. Jessica Valenti stated that women are not children, who need permission from their husbands to do something. Further, she stated the reason why men want right to make decision abortion is because they want to control their women. Jessica Valenti believes that giving men right to control women body, can diminishes women parenthood and her autonomy (Valenti). The article Jessica Valenti wrote has some points that are not valent. The first point that is irrelevant when she stated that allowing men to make decision about abortion would diminishes women parenthood and her autonomy. Listing to her men opinion about abortion would not make anyone less of woman. Instead looking like less of women, she would look selfless women in front of her partner. It will show her men that she cares about his emotion too. The last point that is irrelevant when she stated men only want right to make decision about abortion is because they want to control their body. The reason why men want to be involve in decision of whether their partner should get abortion or not is because the child in his partner womb is his too. Why people forget it takes two people to make a child. If a couple becomes pregnant the woman has 100 percent of the choice to keep the baby or have an abortion. If the man wants the baby ant the woman does not the man is out of luck. If the man does not want the baby and the woman does the baby. Then man has no choice but to pay for child support for the next eighteen years. Why force men to pay for something he does not want. That why involving both partners when making a decision of whether get an abortion or not, is a right way to go. Why? Because half of DNA contributed to the baby is his. So, father does have a right to decide whether should come into this world or not. Just giving the mother sole responsibility to decide is unfair for the dad. We never give any chance to the father to express his thoughts on abortion, even though the child his too. Just because it women body does not mean she is solely responsible for the decision. Men and women both have equal responsibilities once the child is born, so why not involve men in decision making.