Spousal Consent on Abortion

[dazzleman]

This is a difficult area to legislate.

I think honestly that women who push the "it's my body" philosophy have shot themselves in the foot.

First of all, it's not the woman's body.  It is a fetus' body that is being destroyed, not the woman's body.  And the fetus was created by both a man and a woman.

I think that both the father and mother should have equal rights and responsibilities when it comes to their offspring.  Parenting is more about responsibilities than rights, but the two are closely linked.  And women who have sought to run roughshod over the rights of the men who have fathered their children have brought ever more responsibility for childrearing upon themselves.

Right now, we have more women bearing sole responsibility for childrearing, including financial support, than at any time in our history.  In certain segments of society, women are the primary and sometimes only financial support for a majority of children.

The results of this situation have been disastrous.  Children growing up without the support of their fathers, either financial or emotional, are disadvantaged in every area, even if they are not financially poor.

And women who bear sole responsibility, including financial, for raising their children are generally exhausted and overstressed.  And they know they can't properly do the job alone in most cases.

There is a strong link between the "it's my body" attitude and the situation I am describing.  We need to get back to dual rights/responsibilities instead of obsessing over rights while ignoring responsibilities.