Letters to the Editor
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Fairness in Law and in the Child's Best Interest
Ironclad's points are the real issue here, everthing else is really off-topic, except for what happens AFTER a child is born, under Ironclad's matrix #4. In that sceniaro, the mother should be REQUIRED to give the child up for adopton, at a minimum. For this to be enforcable, it would require the father sign an opt-out statement at least two weeks before the end of the first trimester. If the mother does not inform him of her pregnacy until after that time, and it's too late for anything but adoption, again under matrix #4, then either the mother must choose adoption, or if she choosed to keep the child, not be allowed to demand legally enforcable child support from the father.
If a woman is that confident of her parental abilities (rather than the selfish "I want a baby"), then she should be given ALL the legal responsibility that goes with her own decisions. I would even go farther to say that under these conditions, that child should have no automatic inheritance rights either. The women's right to choose in this case ends after the child is born. As stated elsewhere, that is really what is in the best interest of the child after it is born under those circumstances.