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What people who support unequal laws can't overcome in this debate is one very simple fact.
A woman has the legal right to terminate a pregnancy for the sole purpose of fulfilling her desire to not be a parent. Her right to abort is not limited to health risks. She has the freedom to abort for any reason she wants.
Men on the other hand, are held as legal hostages to whatever the woman decides. He has no rights what so ever but faces legal culpability for a decission made without his consent.
Even the argument that the law is equal because if a surrogate is involved, the woman cant abort the child during the pregnancy, is a logical fallacy; because the woman made the choice to use a surrogate to begin with. The fact that she cant change her mind after the fact is really a flawed conflation of equality.
There are male rape victims that not only did the courts award custody of his child to his rape victim, but they are also court order to provide his rapist with finacial support. I dont know this for a fact, but it would not surprise in the least, if some of these male victims have restraining orders on them preventing them from having contact with thier children to boot.
The law does not even give men the courtesy of requiring the mother to inform the father that she's pregnant, allowing him adequate time to prepare for fatherhood. Nor does the law require that she ever inform the father that he has a child. The law however does allow that same woman who witholds that rather pertinent information, to later go after the father for years of back support, after she denied him the right of being a father to that child while it was growing up.
I get why these laws came into being once upon a time ago but society has evolved past the need or usefulness of them. Its time to reexamine them and rewrite them to reflect modern societal needs.
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"...but faces legal culpability for a decission made without his consent." Was he asleep when he impregnated her?