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Originally Posted by rubecube
Hypothetically speaking, a woman is religious and doesn't believe in abortion. She has sex with a man who claims to want to have kids with her, but once she's pregnant he decides he's no longer interested. Should she be forced to go agains her personal beliefs, or have her child be denied financial stability because the father flaked?
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I would take out the religous angle because if she is having sex out of wedlock then she probably isn't following her religion to closely anyways. So lets just say she is against abortion. I would argue that since the man stated that he wanted to have kids with her he would have already exercised is parental rights. Now this would have to be decided by the courts if he said he wanted to have kids someday with her likely he would still be able to abdicate his rights as there was no specific intent but if they were actively attempting to get pregnant I think he would have already made the choice to become a parent and therefore couldn't opt out later.