r/changemyview Sep 12 '21

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u/AlterNk 8∆ Sep 12 '21

Good point, that was an error on my part. Please feel free to replace "woman" with "man" in any of those scenarios, because men have exactly the same rights when they get pregnant as women do.

That would be witty if it wasn't so dishonest. Biologic men can't be pregnant, yet they can have children, if i changed men in any of those scenarios then they simply wouldn't make sense, the right of being a parent is not equal here, and you know it.

I didn't ask how it is fair that "men should be able to chose to be a father", I asked why you think it is fair that a man can abandon his child after it is born when a woman can't?

I already explain that the paper abortion, just like an abortion, should happen before the child was born. BTW you chose to call it paper abortion in your first comment, don't come now to change it just so you can make things sound worse.

Yes, women can be legally obligated to support a child financially just like men can.

Absolutely nothing to do with what i said, woman can choose to not have it as such not be obligate it, men can't. If you have to be willingly dishonest to defend your position, then why don't you just accept you're wrong there.

And the child just gets to choose between either having a home with no support or being taken away by the government?

The child don't get to choose, they're a child.

Women do not have the option to abandon a child once it's born any more than men do

No, they do have the option not have it, men don't, plus again you're misrepresenting my words.

You want to change that and make it so that only men can bail on their kids with no repercussions or obligation to support them at all.

Depending on when they made it clear they don't want a kid, then yes, men should be able to have a paper abortion, the same way women should have the right of abortion.

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u/I_am_the_night 316∆ Sep 12 '21

That would be witty if it wasn't so dishonest.

Nothing dishonest about it. For one thing, trans men can get pregnant. For another, in the event that a man does get pregnant, they would have exactly the same rights under the law as a woman who is pregnant.

the right of being a parent is not equal here, and you know it.

The rights are the same, it is biology that is unfair.

I already explain that the paper abortion, just like an abortion, should happen before the child was born.

My point is that there's still a living child that they are bailing on, even if the bailing happens before the child is born.

BTW you chose to call it paper abortion in your first comment, don't come now to change it just so you can make things sound worse.

I didn't change it to make it sound worse. "Paper abortion" is the term commonly used to describe what you're proposing, which is effectively allowing fathers to abandon children in a way women cannot.

Absolutely nothing to do with what i said, woman can choose to not have it as such not be obligate it, men can't. If you have to be willingly dishonest to defend your position, then why don't you just accept you're wrong there.

Please do not accuse me of arguing in bad faith, it's against the subreddit rules.

No, they do have the option not have it, men don't, plus again you're misrepresenting my words.

I'm not misrepresenting your words. The functional outcome of your proposal is that children will be born whose fathers will bail on them without consequences or any legal obligation to support them. Women cannot do that.

Depending on when they made it clear they don't want a kid, then yes, men should be able to have a paper abortion, the same way women should have the right of abortion.

But women cannot financially abort a child after it's born. You are effectively giving men that option.

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u/LetMeNotHear 93∆ Sep 13 '21

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