Yesterday, abortion came up in our disscussion in class about the struggle for equality among the two genders. Should the father have a say in the matter of terminating his child as much as the mother? It's difficult to choose a side in a situation like this because the child wouldn't exist without both parents, yet the child is being formed inside the mother; so, is it fair to say that the man can decide what the woman does with her body?
This topic will always have a problem with struggle for equality because of those issues. I'm a strong believer in sharing equal responsibility for the child; however, because that the man doesn't have to deal with actually having the child, he could have the power to take advantage of that if he had a say on the issue of abortion. How can he know how to make the right descision when he will experience being pregnant?
Pregnancy occurs because of a descision made by two people and the responsibility should be shared equally. If the couple can't agree on whether to keep the child or not, then the woman should ultimately decide only because she's the one having the child.
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