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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I wouldn't presume to speak for TBQH but as Johnny B alluded to there is something not right about mutual consent not being a consideration at all for childbirth. The woman gets to decide if the child goes to term or is aborted, while the man lacks any rights to have any say regardless of the woman's choice and can then be reduced to a monetary aid provider. Something about that is not right. It has little to do with the Oliver segment but is an interesting subject that needs to be explored more because equal rights for parents is an absolute necessity.
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Let's say I have a son and he needs a heart transplant. A perfect donor is found in a patient who just died in the next bed in the hospital.
If that now deceased person is not an organ donor, the hospital cannot take that organ to save my son's life.
Insisting a woman has to go to term with a pregnancy she doesn't want is basically saying a corpse has more rights than does a living woman.
If a man wants control over his possible offspring, only have sex when you're certain you want to conceive with that woman, only when you can afford to support that child on your own, when you can (in the US anyway) pay for her medical bills (a completely normal, healthy birth in the US runs well into 5 figures), also make sure her bills are covered in the weeks her body needs to recover from said pregnancy. (A typical woman who gives birth often has major repercussions from giving birth for 4-6 weeks after the child is born, and many women are never the same after giving birth)
Giving birth isn't just surgery, it's not like arthroscopic surgery where she goes in, has the procedure and is home that night. Even a normal birth is multiple days in the hospital. It is a hugely invasive process unlike almost anything men can experience. And that's just the final part of a pregnancy, that doesn't include the other 30-some weeks of misery beforehand.