Yamori wrote:the only case where it is (and should) be feasible to make medical decisions for an adult is if they are incompetent and have a legal guardian, or they aren't concious and need emergency decisions.
You know of the procedure called a Vasectomy, Yamori? Did you know that if you want to get one while you are married (if the doctor knows you are, you can lie) you need to notify your wife and get her okay? This is in the military at least. No idea of the rules in the civilian world.
Now, why should a man have to tell his wife if he's having a procedure done on his body? Are you trying to tell me that men are too incompetent to make the decision that they no longer want to have children and need their wife to advise them?
Let me answer that for you. It's called courtesy. Something women have been lacking for too many years. They think that because it is their body that they have the right to decide if I, as a man, am going to (or not going to) have to pay child support. I think it's high time that men have a hand in the decision making of whether a child should or shouldn't be carried to term. If the man says he doesn't want ahything to do with the child, he is free and clear of child support. Plain and simple!
Now you can use the arguement that he did the crime so he must do the time. What about a woman that doesn't want the child but the father does? SHE did the crime. Must she do the time if the father says he wants the child? You see, it works when the mother is the one who wants to keep the child, but not when the father does. You can argue all day that the mother should not be forced to undergo a 9 month incubation period and umteen hours of labor all for the amusement of the father. However, if the roles are reversed and the mother wants the child while the father doesn't, the father is forced to pay support for the child for 18 years! How is that fair?
