| the father to pay child support. These two
contradictory rights remove all control of the fetus from the male, thereby excluding him
from the basic American ideal of equal rights and/or treatment. When a man engages in sex
with a woman, she can determine if she wants to use birth control or not. If she chooses
to become pregnant, she can then saddle the male with the cost of the child. She wants
that right over the male (obligating the male) claiming he is half-responsible. That right
alone would be fair, except she can also abort the child, denying the male his half of the
responsibility (an obligation a male might want.) In no other
segment of American law is one side afforded all rights, all control and the other no
rights. Women can have sex with whom they choose. Woman can control who fathers their
children. Women can decide the life or death of a fetus, i.e. arbitrarily deciding to
obligate one male over another. The rational conclusion of such a one-sided arrangement
can only be the male is not responsible in any manner for pregnancy.
To correct this inequality, we should codify that males bear no
responsibility for any woman's children. If that is not done, then in the name of equal
rights, the legal system should demand woman are held as accountable as men. A woman
should have her fetus tested, male parentage established, and the male's permission
obtained before a fetus is aborted. This would be similar to the process she would take to
force a male to provide for a child she elected to deliver.
The comparison is extreme, but accurate. The reason for the current
twisted societal thought process that led to poor, contradictory and conflicting legal
rights is a press that elevated the most maladjusted malcontents (extremist women's
libbers) and gave them a forum. Despite comprising a small fraction of all women, our
judicial and congressional system actually responded to the network's public relations
campaign.
The reality is as it always has been: pregnancy is completely the
woman's responsibility and problem. The man has no repercussions from pregnancy. He
doesn't swell for nine months. He doesn't breast feed. He doesn't do a damn thing! There
is no cost to a male. Only a strict socialist state enforcing male responsibility could
ensure any certain cost to a male. Even with today's laws, a male can move from state to
state; he can refuse to work; he can do a thousand things to avoid his legal
responsibility for a child.
The current laws and liberal ideology must be forgotten concerning
responsibility for children. The common sense the first cave women intuitively knew must
again be recognized. The woman from girlhood has to understand any result from sex is 100%
her problem. Her only real security is knowing the quality and character of the male
before having sex. No law can ensure a woman support of her child. Only the morals of a
rational society imparted to its male and female members can do what the law attempts.
William Kaliher is a free lance political columnist and a
staff writer for the Ether Zone. He can be reached at wkaliher@mindspring.com
Published in the October 1,1999 issue of Ether Zone. Copyright © 1999 Ether Zone
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