08-31-2020, 12:58 PM
(08-31-2020, 10:02 AM)PDub80 Wrote: If you haven't watched Dave Chappelle's bit on abortion from his latest Netflix series, it's hilarious. He basically said before the bit that you can figure out his stance by the end of it. At the end he said "You body your choice, but my money should mean my choice". Meaning, if you can choose to have it, he should be free to choose to not support the child.... since, you know, everybody gets a choice now. Which, of course, isn't going to happen.
^ His big picture point, to me, was that there isn't/shouldn't be a choice in either scenario.
This is a classic "false equivalency" argument. Once the child is born neither party can chose not to support it.
Right now men think it is not fair that a woman has the choice to have an abortion, but it would not be fair to give the man the choice over the woman's body either. The fact that the fertilized egg can not develop outside a woman's body makes the current law the only fair way to do it. But in a few years technology will advance to the point that if the father wants the child he can have it removed form the woman's body and force her to support it as a living child. Until then the current law is the only fair way to do it.
