Firstly, I recognize that there are reproductive inequalities. I didn't cause them. I can't control them. And I can't cure them. But I can opine about the obvious issues and obstacles.
The man doesn't have to be on the hook in the first place (or he can greatly reduce the risk), but the consensus of opt out proponents are attempting to claim that that isn't possible.
Your "Overrule theory" isn't an equalizer. In a lot of cases it's a coercive attempt by a man to get women to abort, and more likely than not, it's known that a lot of women have a fundamental belief (a first amendment right) against "personally having an abortion". If it isn't known, it should be. It should be taught to every 12 year old boy and up.
Let me explain:
Are you aware that most pro-choice women won't have an abortion? And that most pregnancies are brought to full term? If you know that - then you also know the above beliefs by opt out proponents are significantly skewed. Such men are ignoring the very facts that should arm them with a new way to think about sex, unwanted pregnancies, and prevention before the fact UNTIL a more equitable solution can come into being. Men can choose to be proactively engaged in going to any length to avoid being in a situation that could potentially result in an unwanted pregnancy with someone that they absolutely knew before having sex that they didn't want as a parenting partner.
Having "the same say" is accomplished how without creating a different form of equality? You're going to have to devise a new name for gaining such a right. Claiming that "having a say is equality" - won't be "equality" that currently exists in the system you have disdain for has removed men from any consequences. There won't be any type of equality.
How does such a premise keep from becoming nothing less than a form of reckoning or retribution rather than and imagined form equality?
If men can legally knock up endless numbers of women, or as many as every individual man can, without any accountability, or consequences, what is your world going to look like 10 years from now? I can tell you what I predict under such situations. Men need to prepare to purchase sex or buy one of these semi-realistic sex dolls. Women will quickly turn to BOB (battery operated boyfriend). Who could blame them?
As my grandma use to say, "If there's no consequences for inadequate behaviors, why stop?"
This is an extremely complicated situation from both a Constitutional level, but also, and maybe more so, at the State Constitutional and Family Code levels. Yes, I know that the conventional belief is that it all comes to a halt for women prior to viability. But nobody has explained exactly how that would occur.
This issue extends way beyond the 14th Amendment, as so many believe is the core issue, and who believes that somewhere therein lies some type of equality for men. :no: It took men's rights groups a very long time to realize that strategy won't work.
That's it for me. Good luck on finding a genuinely true form of equality.
Oh, remember, when judicial and legislative bodies examine this issue they see not just 2 entities, they see 5 involved. Man, woman, child, state, and taxpayers. <----that won't ever leave the minds of the powers that are. Using Darwinistic means of virtually forcing all women to live with the decision to not abort - will come back to bite society in the ass. It's a given, not a theory. The Supreme Court and Lawmakers know this.
