My Dear Friend,sovereign75February 2 2007, 08:43:48 UTC
I, personally, cannot draw the line from legal abortions to a equality step for womankind. I am enlightened enough to recognize that this may be simply because I am a man, but it stands to reason that if legal abortions make women more equal to men, then there must be some sort of equivocal freedom already given to men. That is, some liberty guaranteed to men by our government that would dictate legal abortions for women simply by the balance of gender in our legal system. The closest thing that I can see to that is equal rights of the father when decisions for the baby are concerned. And sadly, men do not yet possess this particular freedom. We, as men, are bound by whatever decision the mother makes. This is not to say that the father should have priority over the mother, but as it stands, a soon to be father cannot contest an abortion of his offspring. The solution to this? Completely unfair to the mother. There is simply no way that a father could have the ability to veto a choice of abortion because that would deny the woman her right to choose not to subject her body to a pregnancy followed by labor. That last bit sums up the main conflict in my mind. As it stands, fathers have no say outside of the mother's goodwill. And, legally anyway, mothers have all the say when it comes to the choice. Quite frankly, I don't give a damn. you don't see me going out and knocking strange women up, only to pout and cry "inequity!" when the lucky lady chooses abortion. Theoretically, as a hardened libertarian, I believe that legislation should only exist to GUARANTEE OUR FREEDOMS, choice being one of them. Governments don't need to provide abortion services. In fact, they shouldn't provide them. But they must guarantee every American woman the right to choose on their own, and protect said woman if and when she chooses to abort. That is, after all, why our government was created: to ensure us our life, LIBERTY, and that other bullshit.
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