should males have say in abortion decisions?
156800
When in a relationship, it's probably a wise choice to ask your partner (if he is the father).  Support is very helpful when facing such decisions.  However, the father cannot make the final choice.  Pregnancy is something that physically affects only the woman.  It can be a very rough period of time.  Abortions are no walk in the park either.  A man should not be able to make a woman have an abortion nor should he be able to prevent one.
106997
No G.W. just has to answer to his Dick....Cheney that is. By the way Jack,go back to my question on abortion and read the one right below your answer...it is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!....Where is your lion joke anyway????
1090895
Abortion is not murder it is a personal decision, it should be left up to each individual, the government has no business in trying to legislate morality and the people that are against it have no business telling anyone what is right or wrong for them in a moral decision.
937323
No.  He has no rights here in the U.S. either...Of course, if she is pregnant, the sensible thing for her to do would be discuss it with him and let him at least air his views on the whole abortion issue.  \n\nIt sounds like she isn't being entirely truthful about the whole thing though..and the question really should be..is she pregnant at all?  Sometimes women make up stuff like that for attention...it might be because it isn't his..and another reason could be that she plain doesn't want to bear a child right now..and that is her legal right.  If she was having an abortion, and it was his, she probably would have asked him to share the cost..abortions are expensive and are not generally covered by medical insurance.\n\nI would venture a guess that she isn't even pregnant...
200704
It really depends on the situation. If its a choice of life or death for you by having or aborting the fetus, then it should be up to the persons involved.\nBut if its just because you don't want the baby then thats just wrong. In this case just have the baby and give him/her up for adoption.
64926
He has a right to know. That doesn't mean that he has a right to determine what you will do. I think that it should be a decision that you make together since it effects the both of your lives forever but the ultimate decision is yours. If it were me, I'd tell him and discuss the seriousness of the matter and make a decision together.
854774
Pro-choice - I don't care what any woman's beliefs are, they are\nher own & a group of men shouldn't be making laws for\nwomen. We are not second class citizens.
1143609
I find that abortion tends to be more of a "situational ethic".  People decide the question based on personal convenience, their own questionable moral standards, and political persuasion than on the merits of the actual problem.\nThe person who can make the decision, decides that their own lives would be compromised in some fashion, and in a unilateral decision, that the other party involved in it cannot change..(The baby) ends up the victim of their selfishness.\nOf course there are always the difficult cases of rape, or abuse, that are brought up...and while these are tragic...there ends up two victims.  The baby who is terminated for having the temerity to show up, and the mother who is traumatized.  \nWhile the latter are unfortunate, and decisions regarding them are difficult at best...the former is simply a decision that should have been made, prior to a person deciding the fate of an innocent life.  \nWe have made life cheap.  It's easy to erase mistakes in our judgement, and we are validated in this by the erroneous attitudes of others.
523650
That quote you have posted is just wrong in so many ways.  Why would any woman be so stupid as to degrade herself in saying men are not responsible for pregnancies and other parental issues?  Sex is not something that deserves punishment! It happens in nature, people were intended to do it, and there is nothing wrong with it.  NO ONE should be punished for acting on natural instinct.  I just hate it when people always act like it is so wrong--it's not! And as far as the pregnancy thing goes--people make mistakes.  Although you may be responsible and careful, it can happen.  It's just like driving a car: you may be a good driver, but it doesn't mean that you'll never crash.  Abortion is an upsetting thing, but it's just not practical to make it illegal.  Women can't always provide the support a baby will need, and I personally don't think it's up to men in the government to make decisions about abortion.  Men don't get pregnant, so why should they be able to decide? They have no basis for judgement.  As far as this Karen lady goes, why would she act to stop her own access to her rights? It just doesn't make sense to me.  Anyway, after that long rant, the answer to your question is NO.
639983
Equal Choice for fatherhood too?  \n\nWhat if the father wants the baby, but the mother doesn't?  Or if the mother wants it and the father doesn't.  Shouldn't it be a joint decision, to abort or support?\n\nAbortion is terrible, but it is also very complex\n\nYour thoughts?
60878
Absolutely.  That baby is half the father's too.  The mother will ultimately probably have the final say.  Abortion could affect her uterus enough that she is unable to have children in the future due to scar tissue buildup.
530855
annie red\nI am unsure about religion and I am a woman.  I have yet to hear a logical reason why abortion should be allowed at any time for any reason other than to save the Mother's life.  Partial birth abortion is not only murder.  It is murder by torture.  Stop stereotyping members of the pro-life movement.\n\nBy the way.  Why do liberals assume that conservatives have been brainwashed into their beliefs?  Has it never occured to you that the asker has already looked at all sides of the issue?\n\nPro-choice doctors are just as biased as pro-life doctors.
760349
You are right, they should actually show them what happens to the child before they chose to go on with the abortion. It's a gruesome procedure and I couldn't bare to see that done on a dog, lot less on a human being... I think a lot of women would reconsider, if they would actually have all the facts about what's going to happen to their child. \nPersonally, I believe there are times when an abortion is the best choice (for example, for a 13 years old girl that has been raped), but I am really sad that a lot of women use it as contraception (they probably don't know pregnancy is just one possible outcome of unprotected sex, there's AIDS out there and other diseases).
1120395
Actually, the Pill and other hormonal birth control actuall DO casue abortions. It's one of the ways they work...if an egg does get out, the lining of the uterus is too hostile to allow implantation, and baby gets flushed down the toilet.\n\nYou are exactly right. And that is the point the Catholic prolife movement has been trying to get out ever since the days Catholics were the only ones protesting and praying in front of abortion mills.\n Women have been flat out LIED to about birth control, baby manufacturing, abortion etc.   And where have all these things that were supposed to 'liberate' us gotten us? \n\nA world of men who see us as nothing more than sex objects. They can have sex with no commitment, and no consequences.\n\nDon't get your self pregnant...if you do, kill it, I don't want it.\n\nI'm not saying all men are like that, but anytime a guy wants to get in your pants....do you think he is considering the possibility the 2 of you might be creating a child?  Probably not.\n\nI don't know if you are Catholic, but thank you for having a level head and seeing the Truth in Catholic teaching....that all life is precious.
891554
Ither way he who chooses to do what they want when they want. free country but probly the moms and dads. ima anti-abortion so.... you know how that goes.
384508
Parental or guardian consent should be required for treatment in in all but emergency situations. This absolutely should include abortions. Most minors are not capable of making informed, mature decisions about medical care - I'm sure some are, but the vast majority are not. Minors are not 'entitled' to keep any medical situation from their parents.
1175714
Unlike what the previous person said, the logics are not opposite - in the case of pregancy (except in cases of rape), the woman made the choice to have sex (ie her body is her own).  I don't know who wasn't paying attention in health class, but pregnancy is a natural consequence of sex.\n\nAs such, women who are not old enough, responsible enough, or financially able to support a child should not be having sex.\n\nThis holds true for men as well, by the way...\n\nFurthermore, suppose a man and woman have sex and the woman becomes pregnant.  She can choose to have an abortion, even if the man wants to be a father, or she can choose to have the child, in which case the man is financially responsible for her child, even if he wanted her to have an abortion.  He has no say whatsoever in the fate of his child under our current system, and that's wrong.