re: if women can abort their children, why can't men opt out of parenthood?

I kind of understand your point, but your also forceing someone to go through something major that they don't want to go through. Birth of a child hurts worse than anything I've even done in my life, joyish yes, but if it wasn't my choice to go through it, you couldn't pay me enough to go through that pain.

But at the same time to the OP it can be flip flopped, if a man can walk out of a child life, why can't a woman choose to do what she wants with the baby. To a certant degree.

Me and my child has been ran off on, and 5 years later when he wanted to have something to do with the kid, his rights were terminated, and my husband adopted her, and any trace of him has completely been wiped out. They even give you a new birth certificate as the adopted father was the one there at the birth like he is the bio father. She is 11 now, I don't regret it. But I bet he does.