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In reply to the discussion: Father will be reunited with baby adopted without his knowledge, judge rules [View all]Tumbulu
(6,630 posts)Assert with good evidence that she was unable to contact him and clearly shows that she felt abandoned. Car repossessed, phones turned off, etc. Do you see these articles?
Yes I feel that the child, being the product of a mother's body is primarily hers. If she does not want to abort it and does not want to raise it and for whatever reason does not believe the father is up to the task of raising the child, as the woman in this situation clearly decided, absolutely she has the right to give it to people she thinks will raise it with love and perhaps greater security than she or the dad can supply. Clearly this is not the current law. But I find it an outrage that it is the current law. She has produced the child. It is only a patriarchal system that assigns ownership of woman and her offspring to a husband or any man who may claim to be the father. Why is a sperm donor given equal say in any case such as this? Really I do not get it.
The articles all agree that she wanted to either abort or give the baby up for adoption but that he objected. Isn't that abusive controlling behavior right there? Forcing her to go through with a pregnancy that she did want with a child that she had already had to raise on her own? She did not want another baby to raise all by herself. Big surprise- being a single mom is way hard. She did not want to be connected to him anymore. Why are his rights equal to hers in this case? His body has not produced the baby. Sorry I am not at all PC about this. I am sick of pregnancy and birth and child rearing being reduced to essentially nothing in our society. I am far from PC on this topic!