Make fatherhood a man's choice

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2013-12-04 04:20

Article here. Excerpt:

'Despite all of this and in complete keeping with my deep-seated feminism, I believe that making fatherhood optional—as motherhood is—and revamping the child support system to stop requiring financial support from noncustodial parents (usually men) who want to opt out early is good for women, men, and the kids in question. In addition, we should further our support of women who choose to opt out of motherhood via abortion or adoption as well. It’s time to make parenthood a true choice, on every level.
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Additionally, lack of access to abortion doesn’t mean we should be unfair to men. We need to stand by women’s reproductive freedom, no matter what choice a woman makes. And a woman who wants a child needs to be prepared to support that child even if the biological father is not willing. I don’t believe that we will ever have true reproductive autonomy until men are offered the option, as women are, to opt out. We will never have full reproductive autonomy if we continue to put an asterisk next to “my body, my choice” and add the footnote “but if I decide to have a baby, pal, you have to pay.”'

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I've become one of those 'sciencers' who believe the only hope mankind has is science to save ourselves from ourselves. the invention of the male birth control pill is the only way to stop the courts and feminists from preying on and legally binding men into indentured servitude.

anybody want to bet when (and if) the u.s. gov. does allow it to be used there will be laws forbidding men from committing d.v. on wives by taking it w/o her permission? hubby's already need her permission for a vasectomy in many places.

while they are at it, maybe scientists could invent some extra gonads for married men so they can pretend they still have a pair. some ghost-nads.

wait, I believe I hear the call of the fearsome wild married man now,

Y E S D E A R !

what a brave specimen married man is to actually voluntarily sign up for a lifetime of 24/7/365 marital servitude.

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Submitted by daveinga on Wed, 2013-12-04 11:05