Meaning that if women have all the rights with regards to pregnancy and children, they should have all of the corresponding responsibilities.
Virtually any mother should be able to find support enough to provide her children a decent life, though a conventional marriage or other means, or should be independently wealthy enough to take care of a child. That's responsibility. Failing in that responsibility is abuse or neglect.
I don't agree with any obligation whatsoever placed on the father (which puts me at odds with our podcast guest here). Thinking about someone who donates to a sperm bank, I don't see why a father who does it the old fashioned way is really any different. But I also don't agree that there is any role for the government in making up for absent fathers. I'm all for stable families, but that's not achieved through mandated child support payments and punitive divorce law, it's through people forming actual relationships.
I guess, with this position, you must be very supportive of any woman who finds herself pregnant and unprepared to provide for the child having an abortion then…?
I'm probably around the median opinion of having some reluctant acceptance of early-term abortions. I wouldn't say I'm "very supportive".
And at the risk of stating the obvious, the passive language phrase "finds herself pregnant" is quite misleading in serving to suggest that the hypothetical woman is not responsible for this state of affairs.
Meaning that if women have all the rights with regards to pregnancy and children, they should have all of the corresponding responsibilities.
Virtually any mother should be able to find support enough to provide her children a decent life, though a conventional marriage or other means, or should be independently wealthy enough to take care of a child. That's responsibility. Failing in that responsibility is abuse or neglect.
I don't agree with any obligation whatsoever placed on the father (which puts me at odds with our podcast guest here). Thinking about someone who donates to a sperm bank, I don't see why a father who does it the old fashioned way is really any different. But I also don't agree that there is any role for the government in making up for absent fathers. I'm all for stable families, but that's not achieved through mandated child support payments and punitive divorce law, it's through people forming actual relationships.
I guess, with this position, you must be very supportive of any woman who finds herself pregnant and unprepared to provide for the child having an abortion then…?
I'm probably around the median opinion of having some reluctant acceptance of early-term abortions. I wouldn't say I'm "very supportive".
And at the risk of stating the obvious, the passive language phrase "finds herself pregnant" is quite misleading in serving to suggest that the hypothetical woman is not responsible for this state of affairs.