In the abortion issue, when the pro-life warriors pontificate about enacting laws to force all pregnant women to give birth, they make it sound like the women impregnated themselves. Not once do they make the man (father) who actually caused the impregnation, legally suffer any responsibility for her present physical condition.
You’d think they would at least want DNA testing of the culprit, if necessary in cases of denial, to make sure he bears the full financial responsibility for the baby he created, even if it was unintentional on his/their part, for at least for the first 18 years of the baby’s life.
Suppose the 18-year-old pregnant woman has no medical insurance, works for minimum wage and lives with her parents — should they also be legally culpable for the expense of raising the child — especially if the pregnancy happened in their house?
It seems that everyone gets off free in this baby-saving enterprise, except for the unintentionally impregnated woman. Maybe they know if they included a paternity clause to financially burden the father, pro-life men wouldn’t be so gung-ho in the mad dash to save those babies.
Ron Pizarie
East Allen Township
