Regardless which biological parent it is, the one who wants to have the child carried to term should be the one with the veto power. In my opinion, the libertarian view should be the unborn child who should have the right to live should trump a woman's right to privacy or "property rights" of her body or the man's "right" to not care for a child he fathered. If the couple is unmarried, then one should be allowed to sign away his/her rights to the child in order to be absolved from paying child support. Within a marriage, a father should have the right to DNA test the children of the marriage if infidelity is suspected and should be off the hook for child support if the child is not his biologically and he did not knowingly adopt a child that was not his. If the pregnancy is the result of infidelity within the marriage, the man who fathered the child should have veto power on whether the married couple chose to abort the child - assuming it was known that the child was the product of an affair. If you see a running theme, it's that the right to life should trump every other right. I think this covers it.

(05-06-2015 07:42 AM)ODU06 Wrote:  

(05-06-2015 07:12 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(05-05-2015 04:29 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  Unless you can carry the child yourself, no.

When a women is pregnant then I understand why her decisions dominate. But we are talking about frozen embryos in this case. So no one is currently carrying them. Why would the female contribution in this instance outweigh the males?

Not speaking to the overarching question of general pregnancies but to this case, regarding embryos. I don't know the details of this case or what is generally done when couples decide to create embryos of this sort (i.e. what kind of documents they sign etc.) but, to me, this could be pretty easily solved contractually. If a couple decides to create these embryos, then they should determine, contractually, at the onset, each parties rights to the embryos and bringing them to term. That could range from it takes both their consent, it takes either of their consent, or it takes the consent of person X. Each couple determines at the onset based on what they want.

At present, most unused embryos are just sitting on ice. It's one of those ethical quandaries that we don't have a good answer for at present.