Should men have the choice to terminate their parental rights and responsibilities prior to week 24?

Yes. Women get to terminate theirs, why shouldn't men have the same right? His life his choice.

Yes. It's bigotry and discrimination to deny men the right to choose.

If a woman has just gotten pregnant, wants to keep it, but the man wants an abortion, then the woman should have to have full responsibility. It's not fair for the man to give up 18 years of his life if he doesn't have to. If the man wants to keep it and the woman doesn't, it's up to the woman to have an abortion regardless of what the man wants, so why should a man have to give up 18 years just because a woman decides to keep it when she doesn't have to? It's not that hard to see. Week 24 seems a little too late though. I think that a man should be able to back out prior to week 12, before the abortion deadline. A woman should be required by law to tell the father as soon as she finds out that she is pregnant, otherwise she will forfeit all power to receive forced child support.

I believe that the father of the unborn child has just as much right to the child as the woman does. I believe that if the father wants the child but the mother wishes to end the child's life thru abortion, then he should be able to go to court and sue her for custody and be able to take the baby home with him once its born. The baby is just as much HIS and it is hers. But, if the man is a loser who wont stand up for his responsiblity, well, yeah, let him terminate his rights. Give him the same rights to walk away as is given to the mother to "walk away". I am a woman and I fully support a father's right. I get very disgusted with the women out there who feel that their inconvinent pregnancy is all the man's fault when they just as willingly jumped into the sack. I believe that the father SHOULD be responsible for the child. That's a real man. But, as long as women wanna play the "Oh poor me!" game and have others fully support their avoidance of self-responsiblity for their own actions, then you might as well give that to the father too.

Yes. To say yes to the mother but no to the father is pro-ABORTION. I'm pro-choice not pro-abortion, which means both must have a choice.

As terribly as the consequences of that choice would be, yes, men should have every right to denounce their claim to parenthood in every manner, especially legally. Does that mean he SHOULD do this? No, everybody should take responcibility for the stupid move they made, but a child is a very life effecting thing, and both parents should be given the choice in that matter, weather it is morally right or not.

Definitely. Both should have the same choice.

no...to me life starts at conception.

No, it makes me sick to think anyone has a choice to kill a baby.


I cant believe I am saying this...Taking my emotions out of it, legally it does make sense that a man should have just as much right to choose to be a parent or not, just like a woman does. If he decided not to be a dad, he could sign something to stop his fatherly rights and/or duties.


I wish people would use birth control, rubbers, etc, think about the consequences before you start having sex.

Yes, a man should have a choice to abort the child from his life just like a woman can. The 24th week is too late though. It should be no later than week 20.

Absolutely-free choice for all, but once accepted you must pay to play.

Hail yeah. It's about time.

Absa-freakin-lutely! My cash, my choice.

They already do. It's called "Pushing that bitch down the stairs".

Yes, laws should apply equally to men and women, and that's as close as we can get to equality. As long as women have the right to choose, men should too.

Of course. That's what it means to be pro-choice.

I think they should have the right to terminate their rights and responsibilities so long as that doesn't include terminating the child. I also think it should include giving up the rights to sire any future children, as in irreversible surgery. I don't think a traditional vasectomy would do that. So it would have to include either full removal of the vas deferens or castration.

If you aren't willing to raise a child, keep it in your pants.

I don't think either should have the right to kill or get rid of a child, YOU MADE IT, YOU SUPPORT IT! BOTH females and males... Why should someone else keep your child up? If people would take care of their OWN responsibility, the world would be a better place.. same as welfare. I agree some fall and yes do deserve a second change, but to cause someone to have to pay, weather it be your first time, falling or 100th, is delusional. The tax payers having to foot the bill doesn't have a choice in weather they want to pay or not!

Inconceivable! Just kidding. You've got my vote.

Yes, everyone should have equal rights.

Yep. Pro choice baby, pro choice.

Anybody who opposes this is ANTI-choice. Period. You can't be pro-choice and oppose this.

There is no baby at this point. Both people did the deed, and should now have a choice.

Yeah, pro-choice for her and him. It's the only fair thing to do.

Yup.

As long as abortion is legal there should be a provision for men to have a post-conception / pre-viability choice just like women do.

They both have a choice before sex. Why shouldn't both have a choice after?

This provision should be added to the Freedom of Choice Act. But, it must be early in the pregnancy. Choice for all.

This is a situation which can never be 100% fair. Women SHOULD have more rights because the fetus is inside their bodies, and whether a woman chooses to get an abortion or go through with the pregnancy, it's going to affect her body, not his. So, letting a man just shrug off his responsibility by just saying so is much easier than it is for a woman. On the other hand I understand that, once pregnancy starts, it's also unfair that only the woman has any choice in the matter. I believe that if this choice is given to men, they will become even more irresponsible than some of them already are.

Yep. Fair is fair.

know what..i never thought it was fair that a woman gets all the choices...and i am a woman..a woman gets to decide if she wants to have the baby or have an abortion,,she gets to choose if she even tells the father..she gets to choose if she wants toraise it or put it up for adoption..the guy just hangs out and plays the part of the spectator

not just till 24 weeks, she can end her maternal rights even after the child is born... it is called adoption... as long as she has that option he should too. until he can say "you are stuck with the child and have no choice in the matter" she should not be able to say it either. HOWEVER if the conception took place at a time when there was an agreement ro raise children together then she has grounds to force parenthood... but even then it is a case by case situation

Interesting proposition... I don't think they should.

Definitely. No man or woman should be forced to become a parent.

No, they shouldn't have that right. But there is a clear inequity regarding male responsibility for a child that can be aborted on a whim. I have no idea how to address this unfairness and I'm not really all that worried about it as things work well enough as they are.

Yes, especially if they're married.

They already have a choice, but it ends at conception. If you don't want to be a parent, keep it in your pants.

Men should just smarten up demand anal, it is the world's oldest form of birth control after all.

Neither the woman nor the man should be able to have the fetus aborted. After birth, however, they SHOULD be able to give the child for adoption up to the child's 1st birthday.

Ah, now THIS question is guaranteed to stir the pot, THAT'S for sure!

+5 right off the bat for it! (I already gave you the points a couple hours or so ago...I just haven't had a chance to come back and post my own answer!)

I am not for a man "terminating his parental rights and responsibilities" at all. Mostly because the flip side of this question, that of the woman's legal right to abortion, is something I'm not all that crazy about either.

Before people automatically jump in and DR me, I've already made my stance known previously on the subject of abortion, and it's NOT quite so simple as most people assume it to be.

Feel free to visit my profile for the appropriate links under "ETHICS" and "Abortion".

But to put it in short terms here: I am against elective abortion for the sole purpose of convenience of the woman OR the man. For details, as I said, visit my profile.

But the subject of fairness is one of great concern here, with respect to any unborn child and BOTH the parents. It is hardly fair, in my opinion, that a woman to whom any man may entrust the essence of any potential life to should unilaterally be legally able to decide whether or not a child, which is literally 50% his genetically, should live or die.

Nor, on the other hand, is it fair that a man should be able to unilaterally decide he is NOT going to be responsible for a life that is 50% his genetically.

A child is an offspring of TWO people. In my opinion, BOTH people should get their collective selfish heads out of their *sses and own up to their responsibilities as parents.

If you want to play around, you should be prepared to handle the possible consequences of your actions, whether you are a man or a woman, in my opinion. If you're not ready to do that...then you're not ready to include boinking each other in your social lives.

Feel free to DR me if you wish.

Yes, the right to choose is fundamental.

Sure - but if the woman still decides to go through with the pregnancy she should then be provided welfare to help cover at least some of the cost of that child.

Yes, men should have reproductive rights also.

Yes.

No.

As long as abortion is legal, men should have the same protection of their reproductive rights as women.

Perhaps.

I was responding to a blanket statement that a parent cannot terminate their parental rights, because it isn't true.

Yes, if they are going to leave their wife and unborn child alone.
And then pay support.
And be followed everywhere by criticism.

No, if the woman decides to keep it, he has to help. The reason being that the woman does all the work, the man doesn't even have to be there for the pregnancy. All the guy has to do is stick it in for 2 minutes and wait 9 months, so of course he shouldn't be able to abandon his responsibility.

You cannot terminate your parental responsibilities.