Abortion/Adoption/Birth Rights

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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

So one topic that has kind of pissed me off in my Gender and Women Studies class is birth rights. A lot of feminists believe they are entitled to have full control of their birth situation. They argue that if they get pregnant it is their decision to have an abortion, give the child up for adoption, or birth it, regardless of what the man wants or thinks.

I think that kind of view by some / many feminists is a rather extreme view that is a reaction to previous extreme views of male domination over women.

When one looks at the birth of a child, I think there are three apparent stakeholders (mother, father, child-to-be) and two not-so apparent (greater family, society). Ideally all stakeholders should be consulted to varying degrees before the birth of a child. Of course, the child-to-be cannot be consulted, but the best interests of the future child can be reasonably surmised.