Does the fact that we allow legal adoption and legal abortion mean that we have done with the entity of the "mother"?
I am saying that men should have the same choice as women. If a man chooses not to take responsibility that he would lose all paternity rights.
Although really men do not have much in the way of paternity rights.
-Women can abort a man's child
-In many states women are allowed to abandon a child at hospital without the knowledge or consent of the man.
-Women can simply choose not to tell the man she is pregnant. But then later if she needs money she can choose to tell him.
-Women can lie about who the father is, and if it is later discovered there is no punishment for her
-The vast majority of the time women will be given custody of the child
What paternity rights are you talking about exactly? It seems that men largely only have what rights women chose to give them?
Women can chose abortion because unfortunately technology isn't yet advanced enough to allow for the transfer of a fetus into the Father's body or for supporting said fetus in an incubator till it can breath independently. She is the carrier vessel, she gets the deciding vote.
Also, let me point out that men also benefit from abortion, I would suspect that the vast majority of abortion decisions are made jointly by the couple.
Fathers of newborns can also abandon them at hospitals under the safe haven laws without consent of the mother.
Child support isn't owed till a claim for it is filed & paternity proven, a women who doesn't tell a guy she is pregnant till she needs money will get child support going forward but she isn't likely to be rewarded with a fat retroactive check.
Paternity needs to be proven before child support is ordered. I suspect that in cases you've stated about women lying that the women involved truly didn't know who the father was, aside from intense humiliation what other punishment would you like to see meted out?
In situations where the parents aren't married, default custody is assumed to be with the mother. Once the father has signed the birth record or paternity has been proven, fathers do have rights & they are exercising those rights in increasing numbers.
Wanting to assign full legal responsibility for reproduction & the care & feeding of any offspring that result solely to women creates a matriarchal society, are you ready for that?