Mar 13, 2006 / 22:00 pm
Two pro-life organizations have criticized a recent lawsuit filed by the National Center for Men, which argues that fathers should be able to opt out of financial responsibilities for “unwanted” babies.
In Dubay v.Wells, a Michigan man is claiming that the constitution protects him from having to pay child support for a baby he did not want carried to term. The case has been dubbed "Roe v. Wade for men."
Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, says this case challenges the consistency of the pro-choice position.
"The problem here for abortion supporters is that they either have to uphold the notion of reproductive choice and leave single women with no monetary support to raise their children or they have to say that reproductive choice is a human right that only applies to some humans," he said.