Should pro-choice apply to men?
Should pro-choice apply to men? That's what this lawsuit is about:
I've always felt that men do get the short end of the stick when it comes to parental rights and child support, but apparently, others would dodge the issue:
So men and women have the same abilities to not get pregnant. But the intrusion of a government on a women - to assert that you have to carry the child to term - is fundamentally different than the intrusion of government on men - that for the next 18 years, you are economically enslaved to the parent? I don't buy it.
Contending that women have more options than they do in the event of an unintended pregnancy, men's rights activists are mounting a long shot legal campaign aimed at giving them the chance to opt out of financial responsibility for raising a child.
The National Center for Men has prepared a lawsuit -- nicknamed Roe v. Wade for Men -- to be filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Michigan on behalf of a 25-year-old computer programmer ordered to pay child support for his ex-girlfriend's daughter.
I've always felt that men do get the short end of the stick when it comes to parental rights and child support, but apparently, others would dodge the issue:
Jennifer Brown of the women's rights advocacy group Legal Momentum objected to the men's center comparing Dubay's lawsuit to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a woman's right to have an abortion.
"Roe is based on an extreme intrusion by the government -- literally to force a woman to continue a pregnancy she doesn't want," Brown said. "There's nothing equivalent for men. They have the same ability as women to use contraception, to get sterilized."
So men and women have the same abilities to not get pregnant. But the intrusion of a government on a women - to assert that you have to carry the child to term - is fundamentally different than the intrusion of government on men - that for the next 18 years, you are economically enslaved to the parent? I don't buy it.
