Abortion/Adoption/Birth Rights
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.
This is fine and dandy, but if a girl gets pregnant and a man DOESN'T want the child, he still has to pay child support! So what the fuck is up with that? A man can say he wants to keep the child and have his opinion ignored while the woman gets an abortion because it's her body, her decision. But if a man doesn't want to have the child the woman can have it and make the man pay child support!
You can't have your cake and eat it...and this premise smacks of inequity, even if women bare the brunt of childbirth.
Thoughts? Am I just a crazy misogynist?
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