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Submitted by The Fire Inside on Wed, 03/08/2006 - 9:16pm.

Associated Press:

Contending that women have more options than they do in the event of an unintended pregnancy, men's rights activists are mounting a long shot legal campaign aimed at giving them the chance to opt out of financial responsibility for raising a child.

The National Center for Men has prepared a lawsuit -- nicknamed Roe v. Wade for Men -- to be filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Michigan on behalf of a 25-year-old computer programmer ordered to pay child support for his ex-girlfriend's daughter.

This is the part, though, that cracks me up.

"Roe is based on an extreme intrusion by the government -- literally to force a woman to continue a pregnancy she doesn't want," Brown said. "There's nothing equivalent for men. They have the same ability as women to use contraception, to get sterilized."

I've said before I agree that government intervention is an intrusion but we're talking about a case where one person is harming another. The only way we will ever get beyond this argument is when science is definitive as to the beginning of human life. It doesn't cut it that an abortion is legal but then with the same woman, if she were to be punched in the stomach resulting in the death of the "fetus," you're going to be charged. It just doesn't make sense how in one instance it's a "fetus" and in another instance you're going to be charged with murder/manslaughter.

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