Parental Rights

Eschaton:

"Sometimes I wish the level of debate in our elite national publications could exceed, ever so slightly, the level of late night freshman dorm conversations. When he writes [the father should] 'have a say in whether to keep a baby' what he actually means is 'decide what a woman does with her uterus.' It would be nice if there were some intermediate position, but biology dictates that there just isn't. Either you have the baby or you don't. Someone has the right to make that decision for themselves or they don't. And, of course, he eventually makes that clear. He doesn't mean 'have a say.' He means 'decide.'"