This
summer, President Obama proclaimed again that we “need fathers to
recognize that responsibility doesn’t end at conception.” In a sense,
of course, he is absolutely right. But the problem is that, in another
sense, he is completely wrong: Male responsibility really does end at
conception. Men these days can choose only sex, not fatherhood; mothers
alone determine whether children shall be allowed to exist. Legalized
abortion was supposed to grant enormous freedom to women, but it has
had the perverse result of freeing men and trapping women.
read the rest here:
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/07/her-choice-her-problem
my comments to the writer:
While I agree with a lot of what you are saying about women, and also that many men pressure women to abort, not all men want women to abort. Many men, when finding out about a pregnancy do not want abortion but have no say in the decision and their child is killed anyway. Some men do not even know they have lost a child because the woman aborts without their knowledge. Many men have bought into the same lies women have and think it is the solution to what they consider a problem and that life will return to the way it was before the pregnancy.
The other side of this is that men often are very confused. They have been led to believe that they have no say and so many feel they need to allow the women to decide. They believe they are supporting her decision because it is "her body" . Then if she suffers after, she often is angry at him for allowing her to abort. It can be a no win situation and is very complex.
In the end, abortion is bad, for everyone, the woman, the man, future siblings, families and of course the baby. Society as a whole is impacted and suffers from the taking of human life.
Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion 
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