Originally Posted by dabateman

Does the woman not have control over her body when she consents to receiving the sperm? Using your same argument, the woman can prevent any pregnancy she desires.

Preventing pregnancy is the responsibility of both parties. Once the woman has become pregnant is where the issue begins. Once the woman is pregnant she can choose to abort or go through with the pregnancy. Why does the man not have a decision on terminating or proceeding with the pregnancy? Because no one wants to have domain over a womans body except for the individual woman. Fine. So we have established that men should not be able to FORCE women to carry a child. But once the woman makes that decision, she should be the only person responsible for the decision. Understanding that we should not FORCE men to support a baby they didn't want. To do anything less provides women with legal rights over a mans life that she shouldn't be entitled to. The woman is the person who made the decision to go through with the pregnancy and thus she is the one who should support the child without the man because he didn't get a choice about the pregnancy because the womans body is her own.

Do we see the double standard yet?