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If the man opt out the woman can also opt out thru abortion or adoption.The topic of the thread is not "legal equality of op-out options and parental rights". The topic is "Post-conception opt-out for men".
If one sees the father, only, as having the problem and abortion is perceived to end only the mother's responsibility/$cost then the inequality resulting from not aborting can be fixed with a financial opt out law for only the father.
If one looks at the total responsibility/$cost of all the people, organizations, institutions involved there is no way to design a law that allows any of them to opt out of supporting a child, except only the father.
However, if one looks at equality, only, as the problem today's laws are already fair to everyone involved:
If the woman aborts everybody's responsibility/$cost ends.
If the woman keeps the child nobody gets to opt out and everybody is involved in paying for the support of that child.
If the mother had a chance to opt everybody out and didn't is equality served allowing only the father a retroactive opt-out? Does that mean the mother has decision making power that the father can never have. Yup. Biology is a bitch.
If she chooses to continue that stupid decision is on her and she shoukd be held responsible for it