Who has the right to choose. I personally feel you need a father's permission before having an abortion. Don't both parents have the right to choose? What if the father wants to raise the child? I know it is hard, just wanted to provoke some thought on this.

Personally, I don't agree with abortion at all except for certain emergency situations.

I am pro life...but there are reasons one my abort a child...but not as a method of birth control...jmo

Okay...I'm hearing whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, but not whether you feel that a man should have say in it! Is it not his child as well???

I don't know, personally I don't think it should be up to anyone but the woman that is pregnant. However, I do think the man should have a word in edgewise though it should be loosely accepted and recieved...that on top of the fact that men in suits have been declaring whether or not women should have the right to an abortion for years, power to the people I say.

well if you want to find the ass who rapedme.. then by all means you can let him sue me for aborting the baby..

otherwise.

im good thanks.

people have their own reason's for choosing as they do pro choice here

Wow...you assume that I meant in all cases of pregnancy. I don't think in that case he should have the rights to jack ****.

I said I don't believe in it period. So NO, neither the Father or the Mother should have a choice to kill UNLESS there is an emergency situation.

If you need the father's permission, then you're giving the father all the power.

I don't think the father should have a legal say because he's not the one who has to be pregnant for nine months and then give birth.

you were not specific in your OP so i replied as if you ment all cases..

All good sweetie...but I do have to say, that in the case of rape, why wait? Why not take the morning after pill??

it was a few years ago.. and the morning after pill was not as widely available as it is now..
the clinic i went to didnt offer it..


and tecnically in most states the morning after pill is concidered a form of abortion..

One way of thinking limits some, another way of thinking limits none.

How are you giving the father all of the power...right now it is the woman who has all of the power. If you need his permission then both parents have a legal right to choose. If they do not agree, they stand before a judge and he chooses.

some pharmacies refuse to carry the morning after pill

Lack of money, for one. You might not have the money to put up right after a rape, but with abortion you have more time to work with.

edit: and there's the whole thing where pharmacists can decide what to give out based on their religious beliefs.

In all honesty, that puts the issue right back where it is already. We need less court jurisdiction over things like this and more power in the people's hands.

I know in my state the morning after pill is offered. There is also government reimbursement for all rape treatment. Including the rape kit, morning after pill and all std testing. It may not have been offered where you live though. Sorry to presume it was the same where you are.

In this situation you would have to be sure A. He is able to support a child B. He is not just willing that day and not for the rest of his life.

Child bearing and rearing is not a one day, weekend, sometimey thing.

I had a similar situation in my life. I got pregnant and had a child and lived with the childs father after he was born for a few years. I got pregnant through the birth control pills I was on. I decided to give the baby up for adoption because we were not feeding the one we had very well, barely paying the rent, barely able to afford diapers, etc... When the time came to give her up, he wanted to stop the adoption. So we did. A year or so later he left and I had two kids to raise and support instead of one. Do I regret this now, no but I know that my daughter would have had an easier life with a two parent household with enough money to make it through every month. Instead she lived with me struggling and hand me downs and that sort of thing. Does she love me anyway, of course, and I her but I always wonder if she would have been a doctor or lawyer and had a much easier life if I hadn't listened to him.