A Choice is a Choice....

This country has fought so hard for equal rights for women that it is giving up equal rights for men. I truly believe that if we joined forces, we would be better off. Each group in the USA fights so hard against the other groups that we never actually get anything accomplished.

Here is another strong point about equal rights for men:

If abortion is permitted, legally compelling child support might be thought unjust because it creates an asymmetry in legal rights and responsibilities between men and women. Such a system rightly allows women to decide whether to become mothers, but does not allow men to decide whether to become fathers. Such a system allows women, but not men, to avoid the costs associated with children. This asymmetry is reiterated when adoption law allows the mother to put the child up for adoption without consulting the father. The mother can choose to give up the child, thus avoiding responsibility, but the father cannot avoid responsibility if she keeps it. Prima facie, this inequity violates the principle that “men and women . . . should have equal legal rights and duties (Brake)."

If laws requiring that the mother inform the father that she is having an abortion don't exist, on the basis that she has the right to control her body, why then are women able to avoid the costs of parenthood, and men are not? This is inequality based on the differences of reproductive abilities. This is not equality at it's finest. Equality would tell us that if the woman makes that decision, it is with the understanding that she is also taking on the responsibility of the financial struggles of the child.