I was reading this article about a US woman who got custody of her embryos which had been frozen with a man's sperm when she went through medical treatment which would destroy her fertility.
The man, who did not want to become a father, was told by a judge that his privacy concerns were moot.
Apparently a one time discussion four years earlier can be held up as legally binding, even AFTER the man has since changed his mind (they are, after all, no longer a couple), yet somehow this doesn't compare at all to how men are forever being told that a woman can withdraw consent to a single sexual encounter at any point during said encounter.
Is it any wonder that men are dropping out!
The article ends with a throwaway line that "she is not seeking any support, financial or otherwise", but I doubt any judge would hold her to THOSE words. She'll have 18 years to change her mind as to whether or not she want child support from him, which of course no one will hold HER to any verbal agreement she'd made prior...
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