How Abortion Affects Men

The Phasing Out of Fatherhood?
by Motte Brown

We begin tomorrow's podcast with a heartwarming chat about Father's Day. This post is anything but heartwarming.

A couple of days ago on National Review Online, Katheryn Jean Lopez wrote about the "countless" fathers of aborted unborn babies who'll feel "sadness and regret" this Sunday.

Here's the testimony of one of them Lopez highlights from Kathleen Parker's book, Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care.

With no foreknowledge of the abortion, one man writing on a website writes of "nauseating feelings of helplessness and dereliction of duty. ... " He displays a deep compassion for the child he will never father and the mother of his child. And even while feeling guilt over being party to "the thoughtless and criminally careless conception of a child" and anger for having no choice over what happened next, he expresses a profound sense of regret that he could not protect his girlfriend from the "violent procedure. ... Such a cold, soulless, and brutal experience."

There's a lot to unpack here. It could be that this man's feelings about his role in the abortion aren't all that common. But his "anger for having no choice" is a legitimate issue to consider. And Parker picks up this plight in her book.

More Parker from the article:

"Given that every baby has a father, at least technically, shouldn't men have a voice in the decision to abort? The feminist playbook has an absolute response: No. Men legally have no voice when it comes to abortion, even though the child is theirs to either love or disown. They can neither force a woman to carry a baby to term — Hallelujah! — nor force her to have an abortion. Ibid., chorus. Yet by law, men can be forced to become fathers against their will and held financially responsible until the child reaches adulthood. Is that fair, or is fairness mandated only when women are the beneficiaries?"

The state of parental politics and law today is such that "Woman is arbiter of the life force, while man is reduced to sperm and a wallet."

True. But woman is only the arbiter of life if first the man leads her down the path of fornication.

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