RE: Abortion and Paternity Rights
April 25, 2013 at 9:42 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2013 at 9:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Just as a minor nitpick to both of you, the situation is not a double standard. It is two separate standards for two distinctly separate situations. I'm not one to defend the oddness of paternity rights or child support enforcement, mind you - but lets not call it something it;s not.
If there were some measure of equality between the two scenarios (say a male could assume gestation by some means) but was not allowed to do so if the female wished to abort -that- would be a double standard. Ultimately, there is no equality in the scenario we have before us as-is because there is no equivalency between the respective claims of the male or female in this regard. The male simply -cannot- lay claim to the child without simultaneously laying claim to the females body - a no-no. meanwhile, the female can lay claim to her uterus without laying any claim over the males body. As a fetus is regarded as neither property (the male cannot lay claim to destruction or seizure of property) or a person (no claim to itself, and no grounds for a claim from either party that a persons rights are being encroached upon) we're left in a situation where the female is the only party with any grounds for a legitimate claim in any dispute of this kind.
If there were some measure of equality between the two scenarios (say a male could assume gestation by some means) but was not allowed to do so if the female wished to abort -that- would be a double standard. Ultimately, there is no equality in the scenario we have before us as-is because there is no equivalency between the respective claims of the male or female in this regard. The male simply -cannot- lay claim to the child without simultaneously laying claim to the females body - a no-no. meanwhile, the female can lay claim to her uterus without laying any claim over the males body. As a fetus is regarded as neither property (the male cannot lay claim to destruction or seizure of property) or a person (no claim to itself, and no grounds for a claim from either party that a persons rights are being encroached upon) we're left in a situation where the female is the only party with any grounds for a legitimate claim in any dispute of this kind.
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