Ok, What's the Difference?

It is nothing more than a matter of perception and further evidence of the double standards that are prevalent in our society in favor of the females. Men are expected to take responsibility for the children while women aren't.

I'll tell you why, because wants to have her cake and eat it too. It is biased. The law allows a woman to take power over a joint decision by aborting a life made by both man and woman, and the man has no say over it. Yet the same women are demanding that fathers who do not want the responsibility of fatherhood should pay child support, instead of teaching the single woman to financially support herself.

It's sad that we live in a society that would force a man to pay for childsupport for a child that he "really didn't want in the first place" but yet a woman can get an abortion and kill a child and the man has no say so in it. It might be her body, but it took two of them to make that child. She definatly wasn't alone.

I would say the difference is in the emotional feeling that is attached to both . Although I don't agree with abortion , it doesn't change the fact that being pregnant does a lot to a woman with all the hormonal changes , something a man will never experience . A man can walk away from a situation and not look back but no matter what a woman does , she will never forget what happened because there will always be some sort of evidence with the changes in her body that will remind her always of what she walked away from or how things might have been . They are both choices made but each with different effects . The effects for a woman will last a lifetime no matter how much she might want to put it out of her mind as she will carry a reminder with her everyday , while a man can just simply push it behing and not have any reminders carried with him each day .

There are many differences between terminating a pregnancy & refusing to care for a child. If a custodial parent (let's assume the mom here) stops providing meals, clothing, shelter etc for her child, social services will become involved and the mother will be charged with abuse and/or neglect. Those are the things child support is suppose to provide for, yet if the non-custodial parent refuses to pay, although they face many sanctions, abuse charges won't be one of them. A non-custodial parent does not *have* to do anything but pay their child support order. Which in the US is not more than 29% of their earnings for one child, and often it's much lower than that. A custodial parent must provide all of the child's needs period- irregardless of what their income is. No one can force him to be an active parent. If he's absent from the child's life, the mother may choose at some point to have his rights absolved and for her child to be adopted by her partner. Child support laws are among other things a way that society thought to balance out the in-balance nature created. A man can walk away from a pregnancy, a woman (up until 1972 in the US) can not. A man can impregnate a countless number of women, abandoning children without a second thought, often to become burdens on society; obviously a woman can not. Without these legal ramifications, men could be as wanton & irresponsible as they chose without a second thought. Women can not. A termination is a medical procedure done to a woman's body because she chooses not to be pregnant (& to endure all that entails) at this time. Pregnancy is a huge commitment, one that should only be entered into & one that can only be healthy in all aspects if it is by choice.

I guess when it comes to the emotional effects, the woman has a lot more to deal with. Just imagine the trauma she has to live with after an abortion. Some women might not admit it but it does affect them in some level would be my guess. I guess guys have it easier as they can detach from the situation physically yet I would have guilty pangs if I was in such a situation.

It does sound like a double-standard. I agree with other posters on the fact that it is a very different experience for women than men. Mothers are the ones who carry, deliver and raise/support the child with or without help from Daddy. Once a woman has made the decision to keep her child, she is obligated to physically, financially, emotionally and spiritually support their child where men can walk away at any time. Men have an option to relinquish his legal parental rights which would be fair considering that is what a woman does by dropping her baby off to a safe-drop (Hospitol, Police Department, Children's Agency) or by opting for adoption or abortion. Either way, it's probably not the most honorable or responsible behavior. These poor babies have to suffer for their parents' decisions : (

I think we need to help the woman. And it is not right to abandon her baby to the abortion clinic and she need to give the child a proper burial. Abortion is an absolutely wrong and it is a crime of murder. And absolutely I am not favor for this. And I think the fetus have life and like us she/he have a right to see this wonderful world.

Yes, I agree In both instances the person is being selfish and irresponsible by choosing to murder a helpless life, rather than endure the consequences of an action. If they feel they can not raise this child, adoption is an option. But you shouldnt kill a helpless life because you do not like the outcome of your actions. Just my opinion.

i guess, its a matter of choice to "have fun" and not take the responsibility when things gets rough! well, technically, theyre the same!

I dont think this comparison is a good one. More likely it would be to a baby abandoned in a firehouse or hospital as the equivalent. If the man abandons his child or the woman her responsibility they are equally at fault.