Abortion
Via corbetti
Is it just for a woman to have all the power in the decision making, but that the man be held responsible if she chooses situation #2? Since, in the final analysis, she decides whether or not a child will actually be born, doesn’t it fall onto her shoulders? One could argue that in getting the reproductive rights and freedoms that Roe v Wade provided, the burden also was shifted away from the man to the woman.
Since in this long discussion no one has said so yet I would like to postulate that the choice to have the child or abort the pregnancy isn’t the mother’s alone. That decision is (or should be) a matter of negotiation and discussion between the parents. In a perfect world these parents will come to a consensus and together they would bear the consequences of that decision.
Yes, we live in an imperfect world and sometime no matter how hard they try (or don’t) the parents can’t come to a mutual consensus that both could accept. It is only in that case that the mother, as the one who will carry the child to term, is allowed to break the deadlock.
Is there a practical difference between that and the mother gets to decide. Maybe not from a legal standpoint. But it bears keeping in mind that when mother and father are acting as adversaries the biological system for raising the child has already broken down.