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Old 01-15-2008, 09:25 AM   #107 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Catus Felidae View Post
You're assuming that the mother does not know who the father is.

In the situation I am proposing, the mother wants an abortion and the father doesn't. The father could easily be the only sexual partner the woman has ever had, however that doesn't help the father if she wishes to abort. All she would have to do is claim that he 'might not' be the father, and then he would have to prove paternity.

As for 'staking a claim', I would imagine that anyone psychologically twisted enough to support blowing up clinics to save feti, would be twisted enough to claim paternity of any fetus to 'save it'.

If we are to enact this law, that the father can veto an abortion, then the law is going to have to be enforcible. The first thing that is going to have to be proven, in every case, is that the father is actually the father. If the mother isn't willing to back him up, how is he going to prove it?

It's all well and good to say 'we need a law', but if you can't make it work, you're just spitting into the wind.


I have to state for the record that the people who are guilty of blowing up abortion clinics are not doing so as birth fathers of babies either about to be aborted or after the fact. These are not crimes of passion for a particular child, but are crimes of mad religion.

And again, I am only siding with the man who said that questioning paternity to the extent proposed by the pro-choice folk who want no one to postpone or stop an abortion is an expression of a much different moral paradigm than what this nation has ever known previously.

Whereas I am not necessarily pro-life, I am certainly not going to ride out the amoral whimsy that has been expressed in this thread by many. If abortion is an essential to pursue in any given circumstance, it ought to be the last resort after all other options have been totally investigated and weighed. If a father steps up to the plate to take responsibility for the child, then his character and resources ought to be considered.

To seek abortion without much deliberation under the misconception ( no pun intended) that it is a woman's body, therefore a woman's choice is a mockery of the very sex act that she engaged in by choice with the father of the child.

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