Miehillä ei ole oikeuksia lisääntymisen ja elatuksen suhteen

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Though abortion is controversial, few believe that women should be compelled to bear and be responsible for children who were conceived as a result of a criminal act, such as a sexual assault. Yet numerous courts have ruled that boys must be held responsible for the children they involuntarily fathered in their early teens as a result of a criminal act--statutory rape by an adult woman.

For example, in 2004 a Michigan appeals court ruled that a man who had conceived a child with an adult when he was 14 must pay her child support. Though the court acknowledged that the sex act which produced the child would have been a crime under state law, they decided that the case should be resolved "without regard to the fault of either of the parents."

Most people sympathize with women who have decided to terminate their pregnancies because they conceived as a result of being deceived into believing that their partners had vasectomies or were sterile. By contrast, courts have consistently failed to extend any consideration to men who have been deceived.

For example, in 2005 an Illinois appellate court decided a case in which a Chicago physician alleged that his ex-girlfriend had secretly kept his semen after the two had oral sex, and then impregnated herself with it. The court stated that if the doctor's story is true, his ex-girlfriend "deceitfully engaged in sexual acts which no reasonable person would expect could result in pregnancy." Yet it hung the responsibility for the child on the doctor anyway, employing the pretzel logic that "when plaintiff 'delivered' his sperm, it was a gift...There was no agreement that the original deposit would be returned upon request."

Suomessa lait ovat asian suhteen käytännössä samat kuin USA:ssa, eli mies voi ja joutuukin elättämään lapsen, jota ei ole halunnut, vaikka häntä olisi huijattu tai vaikka hänet olisi raiskattu. Tämä ei ns. tasa-arvoihmisiä huoleta pätkän vertaa. Kertoo taas osaltaan karua kieltä siitä, miten paljon miehiä syrjitään ja miten olemattomat ovat miesten oikeudet tässä maassa.