From the blog "Tempestuous":

What About Fathers’ Rights?

(This was one of the essays I wrote for my composition class last semester, about if fathers should have a say in abortions.)

              Abortion is a major issue in America. There are three
main categories people usually fall into: always for abortions, always
against abortions, and for abortions under certain circumstances. It
seems that most of America falls into the third group. According to a
poll done in May of 2012, titled “Abortion”, by Gallup, 52% of people
believed abortion should be legal in certain situations. While those
situations are not clarified, it is still above the 20% who felt
abortion should be flat-out illegal. 25% maintained the position that
abortion should be legal no matter what, also still above those against
it. For the most part, Americans agree that it is a constitutional right
for a woman to do what she wishes with her body, within certain
guidelines. This is one of the most common arguments supporting
abortion- her body, her choice. Therefore, it’s not very surprising that
many pro-choicers often overlook the father’s role in the entire
situation. It takes two people to make a decision that results in an
unplanned pregnancy. It only takes one to choose to terminate it. Other
than in cases of rape, incest, or the mother experiencing possible
fatality; if the pregnancy is normal, healthy, etc., and simply not
planned or wanted, the father should have a say in whether that
pregnancy results in a child being born or not. Abortion is known as a
women’s rights issue, when it should be known as a couple’s rights
issue.

            Most of the arguments for fathers’ rights come from the
pro-life side of the abortion issue, and because of this many of those
on the opposite side disregard it, or ultimately disagree simply for the
sake of disagreeing. More people need to learn the facts, and take into
consideration that this is not a one-sided argument; it is simply a
human argument. In many other countries the woman must receive
permission from her husband before having an abortion. Dahlia Lithwick
explains how here in the Unites States, the father doesn’t even have to
be informed of the pregnancy, let alone the decision to terminate it.
Three years after the legendary 1973 court ruling in Roe v. Wade, the case that ultimately made abortion legal, Planned Parenthood v. Danforth did away with the requirement of written consent from the woman’s partner. This was reiterated in 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey, stating
even further that a woman need not tell her partner at all. All cases
involving a father suing for his right for his child to be born have had
the same outcome. While there do seem to be more cases, no judge wants
to mess with women’s rights.

the rest is here: http://tempestadore.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/life/