
An Alabama judge is allowing a young man, Ryan Magers, 19, to sue on behalf of his aborted child. His girlfriend got an abortion at Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives in Huntsville. She was 6 weeks pregnant at the time but got an abortion against his wishes. Hence, the lawsuit. However, he’s suing on behalf of himself AND his child unborn child.
Alabama recognizes the personhood of a fetus, so Magers is suing on behalf of the fetus and himself.
“Baby Roe’s innocent life was taken by the profiteering of the Alabama Women’s Center and while no court will be able to bring Baby Roe back to life, we will seek the fullest extent of justice on behalf of Baby Roe and Baby Roe’s father,” Attorney Brent Helms said in a statement. “The time is ripe for consistency in Alabama’s jurisprudence: either we fully acknowledge the personhood of the unborn or we cherry pick which innocents we protect and which ones we trash for profit.”
Exactly.
It’s honestly archaic and ridiculous that society treats fathers as disposable imbeciles who shouldn’t have a say in the matter. Just because a woman wants to abort her child doesn’t mean that the father shouldn’t be able to fight it. Why doesn’t he get a say? It’s his child too. By contrast, if a guy doesn’t want anything to do with the kid and the woman has the child, he can be forced to pay child support. So if he WANTS the kid, he doesn’t get a say. If he DOESN’T, he’s forced to help. In what world does that make sense?
Madison County probate court Judge Frank Barger allowed Magers to name his aborted child as a co-plaintiff in his case against Alabama Women’s Center, a move that came just four months after the passage of an amendment that gave fetuses personhood, or the same legal rights as any other person, under the state constitution.
Helms believes the case could make it to the Supreme Court.
Wouldn’t that be something?
We’ll certainly keep an eye on this case.
h/t Fox News