"The only time , the girl will give the name ... is when the guy made promises , and refuses to marry ... refuses to care .. and the girl is left alone ."
"To clarify : is it the womans choice whether the guy is prosecuted after he has been named , or is it the states ? By what you 've said so far , it seems that all this law does is give woman the power to punish men if they get pregnant by them ; despite the fact that the woman was just as consenting as the man at the time of the coitus . There are also contraceptive paths for women that do n't involve condoms . If a woman gets pregnant because she forgot to take the pill that morning and always relied on that rather than on condoms to stop her getting pregnant , why should the man be punished ? The message here should be simple . If you do n't want an abortion , and are n't currently in a position where you can support your children , do n't have unprotected sex . At the moment , it is the woman 's choice alone whether she has an abortion or not , so it is the woman who has to look after the child if she is single after its birth . If you want to add men to that equation , you have to add them in both places - give them the legal right to 'have an abortion ' ( force their partner to have one ) , and make them legally responsible for the child if they do not do so . Then you have an entirely connected couple from coitus onwards ; both consenting to sex , both choosing not to have an abortion and both caring for the child after birth . I doubt that that law would be a popular one , either - but if you are going to force a man to take equal legal responsibility for a child , you have to give them equal legal opportunity to avoid it ."
"The only time , the girl will give the name ... is when the guy made promises , and refuses to marry ... refuses to care .. and the girl is left alone ."
"if you are going to force a man to take equal legal responsibility for a child , you have to give them equal legal opportunity to avoid it"