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As the previous post notes, the time for a man to exercise his own right to choose is before having sex, not after a pregnancy occurs. If a man is so loathe to have children, he should either abstain from sex altogether, carry and enforce multiple forms of birth control, or have a vasectomy. Once a pregnancy occurs, the decision becomes the sole domain of the woman whose body holds the baby -- to force her to either carry an unwanted child to term or to end the life of a baby she wants would be such an enormous invasion of her right to make decisions about her own body that it would far outweigh any "fairness" to the baby's father. While I sympathize with the frustrating lack of power men must feel in these situations, the only way around it is to take the appropriate precautions at the outset, not impose barbaric regulations after the fact.
