An open warning

[fpb]

To anyone who might feel like defending abominations such as baby-murder and the State murder of the old and sick: be reminded that this blog is my space. I decide what goes in and out; and while I allow all my friends to say what they think or feel, I will not, on principle, leave in any defence of what I regard as crime. If you want to defend crime, do it in your own space and don't bother me; all you will get otherwise is deletion and banning.

Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, I have a very strong objection to one thing you said: men may never be pregnant, but only men may be father. I am past the time when I could afford to have a baby unless I was rich, since to have a child you have to have either lots of energy (like at 20) or lots of money (to hire a 20-year-old or two to do all the hard part of the minding), but I would have loved to be one. And I have to tell you that that sort of statement makes me feel reduced to some sort of sperm donor.

[prylliepwns.livejournal.com]

I didn't say that men shouldn't have any say in what happens if a woman is carrying their child. I just said I don't believe men should be responsible for deciding whether or not women get a choice.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Funny. The court that passed the Wade vs. Roe decision was all-male.

Anyway, we will not agree, so let us end it here. (It is half past midnight where I live.)

[prylliepwns.livejournal.com]

I agree that we will not agree, but I respect your opinion, and hope you sleep well, Fabio.

[superversive.livejournal.com]

If men can’t decide whether women ‘get a choice’, then logically, no man can make or prevent that decision with respect to any woman, even if the child is his own.

This may not sit well with those whose reasoning is based upon emotion rather than logic (which might be a wholesome thing in a case like this), but alas, the law cannot be written to take such emotions into account. The existing laws in every country that I know of make no allowance for the status of fathers, and nobody has seriously suggested that they should or even could.