Should Men Have A Say In Abortions?

It might not be fair to men but a lot of men don't want kids when they hear a women is pregnant and they aren't married or engaged or really in relationship and even if they are married or in some kind of relationship they don't want kids. It might not be fair but its not the guy's body he has no say in what a women does to her body. A women can't tell a man you have to be a father he doesn't have to pay child support that is the mother's choice if she choices to contiune the pregnancy or not and it's the guy's choice weather he wants to be there or not. Pregnant comes with it's risk. The mother and child are at risk every second of every day. yes a women's body is built to hold another person but just because it takes two to make a baby it doesn't take two to raise a baby or have a baby. It's every ones right to do what he or she wants when it comes to being a parent. I don't think the laws will ever change on the fact a women can have an abortion. I don't believe in them but I do believe its a women's body she can do as she wants with it. Either risk having a baby and not wanting that baby, or wanting it but having a partner that doesn't want to have a baby or having a partner that does. They come with risk. Who says then 10 years down the road both parents are going to want that child still nobody knows that is risk that is taken. Many people feel they have no choice but to have a child even if it's with the wrong person and some times it's the guy that feels a women should have and abortion and she might go through with it to please the guy or go through with it because it was right for her. No to me a man shouldn't have that right, because he isn't doing the work for carrying a baby for 40 weeks, he doesn't have to go through the pain of pushing a baby out, he doesn't have to get poked and take all these test. He doesn't have to make sure he takes care of his body to make sure he has a healthy baby. The women does all of that not knowing when she might ever go into labor if she might lose that baby. Really a women has no more rights to a baby then the father does because by law a baby isn't a baby till they are born and taken there first breath. I disagree with that part because to me a baby is a baby from the second the egg and sperm meet. Till that baby is born the mother has no physical legal rights to what can and can't be done to that baby but she has ever right while that baby is inside of her to do what she feels is best once a baby is born a father has every right to that child. AT any time after that child is born if that father doesn't want anything to do with that baby he can file for his rights to be taken away and terminate them or he can keep them which then means the women has ever right to ask for child support now if the father has the child more often then the mother then he can ask for child support. Which these days the courts try to be more far about men have full time cousdty of the child as much as the mother.

For me, having an abortion would never be an option so this isn't entirely something that I've thought about. However, now that I've seen this question, I do think that both parents should have a part in making the decision whether or not to have an abortion. The reason that I feel this way is because of the fact that it does take two people to make a baby and therefore it should also take two people to make the decision to take a child's life. The reason that I say this is because of the fact that both parents would have to deal with the consequences of an abortion for the rest of their lives.

I feel very sorry for any men that have had their girlfriend abort their baby when they have been heavily against this. The lady is the one that is pregnant but it is the man that got her that way. I am very against abortion and think that aborted babies are the missing people of the world. I think let the baby be born and adopt him or her. I believe a lady whose life is in danger should be able to have an abortion. I don't believe in abortion for social reasons. If the lady doesn't want her baby say no to abortion if her boyfriend wants to be a loving father. I know a single dad and he is a very loving dad to his two sons. His wife deserted them and he gets on fine on his own. I think there should be a limit on abortions like under twelve weeks pregnancy and only one abortion in a lifetime. The lady that has had six abortions and laughs about it sounds really sick to me.

Hi hazel, welcome to mylot It depends on individual cases. I feel that Within a marriage it has to be done with the consent of the husband , but otherwise say in a case where the man is not too concerned it becomes the woman's responsibility to take care of the child and it is her decision to either keep the child or get it aborted !

Men who don't have say with abortion has no balls- sorry but, it is their child also. Imagine they are killing their own child...

I think that men have every right to say something when a woman is think of aborting his child. The thoughts of abortion involve more than just the life of the pregnant woman. it involves three lives. Having a baby is not a decision to be taken lightly and abortion should be seen in the same way.

In this case women still make the main decision. After all, it is not easy for a woman to pass the pregnant time. Her body will be changed a lot. And she has to suffer so much. So even if a man wants to keep the baby but the woman says no, he can't do something to it. All he can do is to persuade the woman to change her mind. And even if the woman wants to keep the baby but the man doesn't want to, he is still responsible to support them because this is his responsibility. It seems to be unfair but this is because the woman is the one who gets pregnant. I love China

I don't think men have the right of say in an abortion decision, even if they for some reason wants to stay with the baby. It's not going to be him that will have to deal with the 9 months of pregnancy and all the consequences that comes with a unwanted pregnancy (I mean physical and psychological), also, for me, it's impossible for a woman just have the baby and just give it away to the man and never see the baby again. I'm in favor of abortion (even though in my country this not legal and I probably would not do one unless in rape case or something like that), but I think that women have the right to say if she wants the baby or not, I think there's no reason to give birth if the woman will not love this child or will not have financial conditions to give the minimal conditions for a reasonable life. This case that you mention, I have sure is a exception, I think the majority of women that did an abortion, suffered a lot from that.

Yes, they should if they are not out there to injure the mother or the child. It is a woman's body though, but the baby was created together. I really do not believe in abortion, but it should be both that decide.