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Your poll options suck this time, duckbear

A woman shouldn't be forced to carry a fetus she doesn't want, but a man shouldn't be forced to pay for a kid he doesn't want.
No option reflect this, the closest is the 3rd, which I voted for, but this specific case is exactly the reason that simplistic "always her choice, completely, on everything" is so wrong and dangerous.

zebatov posted...

Can't help but feel like if child support wasn't forced on the parent who didn't want the child (and also had no say) the girl would still be alive.

Yup!
Another senseless tragedy born of the refusal to grant men the right to refuse unwanted parenthood/responsibilities.

Just as women will resort to coat hangers and other means if legal abortion isn't available (or in this case, she's been brainwashed by religious parents into thinking she can't get one), men who absolutely don't want to be stuck w/ a kid will try to find ways to avoid it. Ideally by just being a "deadbeat dad," but in some cases...murder.

zebatov posted...

She was really upset because she was pregnant and she had been trying to get rid of her child through unhealthy ways, like going out, drinking a lot and doing drugs. She was 17 weeks pregnant. She was not handling it well. Brandon found out but he was dating someone else. He wanted her to get an abortion but i think morally she didn't want to do it.

What.

I'd wager that she was brought up in a very religious household and abortion was thoroughly demonized to her. Thus, the irrational behavior where an abortion will send her to hell, but an "accident" would be ok.

This story just makes you hate both extremes.
The religious conservatives that denounce safe medical abortions so much that someone would think those other methods are "better" morally.
And the hypocritical abortion rights activists who are only pro-choice for women.