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Originally Posted by KnightOfSappho  Depends upon the way you look at it...
The father would have financial responsibility, but the mother would have the physical requirement of carrying the child IN ADDITION TO the subsequent financial responsibility.
Since the responsibility levels are not equal, comparing the 'deadbeat parent' (yes, women are subject to this as well) laws to abortion or pregnancy doesn't really work. | Exactly my point.
The situations are not equal, and will never be equal, at least in our lifetimes, so to try to make them equal is doing women an injustice, IMO. |