August 1, 2006

DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHO WANTS THE KID DEAD AS LONG AS WE KILL HIM?:

COUNTERPOINT: RESPECT A MAN'S CHOICE, TOO (Glenn Sacks, Jeffery M. Leving, 8/01/06, AlterNet)

Whenever a child is born outside of the context of a loving, two-parent family, there are no good solutions. Ma overstates her case, but she is correct that "Choice for Men" is a flawed solution. However, the current regime, which provides women with a variety of choices and men with none, is also flawed.

Matthew Dubay's conduct is not particularly admirable, and he's certainly not a candidate for father of the year; however, he does have a point. Over the past four decades, women's advocates have successfully made the case that it is wrong to force a pregnancy on an unwilling mother. Despite the backlash against Dubay, hopefully his lawsuit will result in a greater societal awareness that it is also wrong to force a pregnancy on an unwilling father.


Posted by Orrin Judd at August 1, 2006 1:33 PM
Comments

Unless the man was raped, I have zero sympathy.

Actually, even if the man was raped, he still should support the kid.

Posted by: David Cohen at August 1, 2006 1:39 PM

He's just forcing the contradictions.

Posted by: Pepys at August 1, 2006 1:57 PM

It's not a contradition: whatever the rules, men are screwed. Men are the Jews of gender.

Posted by: David Cohen at August 1, 2006 4:36 PM

David, now who's sour?

Posted by: erp at August 1, 2006 5:44 PM

erp;

David is sour about being Jewish?

Posted by: Peter B at August 1, 2006 8:40 PM

erp: I'm not sour. Real men like it that way.

Posted by: David Cohen at August 1, 2006 10:45 PM

Dave, real men like having no say about their unborn children's fate?

Posted by: erp at August 2, 2006 11:49 AM
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