Reply #152: Nature is "biased and unfair"

[varelse]

in that only one of the pair of biological parents of any given potential child is responsible for, and able to support the fetus until it is ready to be born. Men and women don't have the same equipment, and thus aren't able to play an equal role at this stage of development, but this is a result of evolution, not legislation.

The law as it currently stands gives women the right to make decisions regarding our own bodies. The right to decide when and with whom to procreate, still rests with both parties.

Condoms, vasectomies, and abstention are the options of the male half of the equation.

Birth control, sterilization, abstention, and abortion are all options of the female half.

Men have control of their own fertility, unless fraud (poking holes in a condom, for example) is perpetrated against them.

Women retain control over their own bodies because they have the same rights men do, albeit a different biologically assigned role in procreation (being the incubator).

However, the children born of any union, by law, retain rights granted to them by fact of their birth, to support from both biological parents. It is never a child's decision to be conceived or born. Their rights can not be denied because of choices made by the parents.

The responsibility can only be transferred if there are willing adoptive parents, or if one of the two biological parents agrees to act as sole guardian and support for the child.