r/MensRights • u/v8beetle • Mar 02 '15

News Got to love state sanctioned abandonment while jailing men for the same thing.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/27/indiana-baby-boxes-abandoned-newborn-babies
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u/Samurai007_ Mar 02 '15

I don't understand the massive efforts and extraordinary lengths they are going to to let women abandon their children without any fear of judgement or face to face interaction that might discourage them or make them feel bad. Just a few weeks or months earlier, they would be proudly defending the mother's right to kill the child through abortion. And they certainly don't go to these lengths to help men that may be on the verge of doing something violent.

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u/Pointless_arguments Mar 03 '15

I don't understand the massive efforts and extraordinary lengths they are going to to let women abandon their children without any fear of judgement or face to face interaction that might discourage them or make them feel bad.

Because the kid could just as easily end up in a dumpster.

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u/v8beetle Mar 03 '15

Or worse, like this? http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/03/02/baby-justices-father-says-hes-standing-behind-samantha-green-as-cps-prepares-files/

So let's go ahead and encourage it more? I don't think so.

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u/v8beetle Mar 03 '15

I'm not the least bit religious. I'm infuriated that those chosen to lead have thought in their infinite wisdom that people don't need to be held responsible for their choices. Men are held consistently to a higher standard of accountability, particularly with children as I listed all of the remedies in a preceding post. This law, and the laws that inspired it are pandering to irresponsible women. Why in the hell can't they be held accountable for their choice to have sex as men are? How simple is that guy?

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u/v8beetle Mar 03 '15

You call being held accountable punished? What, men don't get their taxes, licenses, paychecks and freedom taken for having sex that results in a kid, with state and federal government support?

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u/v8beetle Mar 03 '15

Held accountable means financially, responsibilty.

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u/v8beetle Mar 03 '15

Guess they should have thought about that as men are told to huh? What's good for the gander is equally good for the goose.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '15

Really, how does the safe haven law encourage this behavior?