to happen, I'm talking about what should happen - the question, after all, was asked in legal and ethical terms.
They both took equal part in the creation of the child. Therefore, logically, they are both equally responsible for it, regardless of who wanted or didn't want it to exist.
Ethically, it seems better to me for that equal responsibility level to be "full" rather than for it to be "none", because if you say it's "none" for both, then you're saying it's perfectly okay for that child to be abandoned / aborted.
Granted, you may well be saying it's perfectly okay for the child to be aborted (I doubt you're saying abandonment is okay) - and that's fine, I just don't agree with you. I don't view abortion as an ethically acceptable means of birth control - you made a choice with known biological consequences.
I think there are some ethically justifiable reasons for abortion, and a few more realistically justifiable ones (since reality does not always allow for perfect ethics). "Preference", in my opinion, does not fall into either category. |
