Wanna hear something fun?! In Alabama, you don’t need to be a lawyer to be a probate judge. I live in the county where this suit was filed and here’s the judge’s background. You’ll notice the distinct lack of anything remotely like legal training:

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Pretty much. Or he would have skipped out a few months after the kid was born, and he realized babies are a lot of fucking work.

I had three kids, one miscarriage, and then a fourth and final kid. Pregnancy unequivocally and in every way fucks you up. I love all my kids, all of them were planned and wanted and with the same man within the bounds of *holy matrimony* (to circumvent that whole “slutty whores slutting around so they deserve to get…

The Woman’s mistake was in telling the ManBaby anything. She should have done what she needed to do without saying a word to him. None of his business.

Yes. And many women undergo serious physical risks when they are pregnant, risks that can be fatal (preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, etc.). (The risks associated with abortion are far fewer than the risks of carrying a pregnancy to term.) And for many women, even if they have normal pregnancies/births, there can be…

I don’t think pics like this help.

It looks like the sperm-donor was a minor at the time of the abortion, so how could he could have standing as a legal representative?

“It was just like my whole world fell apart.” Because there’s no world ender like not having something that you weren’t expecting and then six weeks later still not having it. 

My wife has gone through 3 miscarriages and 1 successful pregnancy. It is heartbreaking to lose a pregnancy. But at the same time it, any kind of pregnancy is extremely taxing on a woman’s body. It isn’t as simple as having a human being develop and grow in the uterus and pop it out in 9 months. There are…

If they wanna embrace this language, then I guess we’ll have to start referring to newborns as nine-month-olds.

I wish it were possible for the woman to countersue somehow. There ought to be some way to penalize men for not taking the appropriate steps to corral their invading sperm.
Just for the record, this is a man writing this.

Adding to this, maybe she can work in a little dig like “honestly I’m not even fully sure this one even got it in before he was done and crying onto my chest”

This is the part where they lose me completely. I kind of understand where they’re going with the later term abortions— I don’t agree, but I see what they’re saying, and I definitely see how they’ve succeeded with those arguments. But six weeks??!!??? You miscarry at six weeks and you probably don’t even know you’re…

His whole argument basically boils down to a man having the right to suspend a woman’s rights during a 10 month stretch wherein she temporarily loses her personhood. Not that men’s rights as fathers are the actual goal here. 

Right on. Unless he did a DNA test on the embryo, he cannot prove unequivocally that he is the father and has legal standing to sue. That’s a paradox of fatherhood: at the embryo stage a guy can’t be sure the woman mated with him exclusively. Poor things.

“I’m here for the men who actually want to have their baby,”

Technically, it’s not even a fetus yet, not until 8 weeks. At 6 weeks it’s an embryo the size of a pea.

I think "host" is more accurate, "mother" is used intentionally to make her seem like a failed woman, a delinquent parent, etc. rather than a woman with an unwanted embryo in her uterus, which she has no obligation to host for 9 months.

Pregnancy is a potential consequence of sex. If a man isn’t prepared to accept that his sexual partner may choose an abortion, he shouldn’t have sex.