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It's a woman's body and a woman's choice; The man has no rights here. Once you strip away his rights in the decision process, you also remove all of his obligation.
If "Bob" and "Cindy" date for six weeks and Cindy discovers she's knocked up, it's her decision to have a baby. Bob agreed to have sex with her, not father a child with her, and not enter into some kind of relationship that requires an eighteen year commitment. The man has no rights and is not legally part of the decision making process to have the baby.
Before I met wife, I dated a woman named Karen. Karen had dated a man named Vince prior to me meeting her, got knocked up, but decided it wasn't in her best interests to Vince as a father. She broke it off with him and had the baby without his knowledge. Somewhere along the line the father's name got mentioned in some paperwork, and Vince woke up one day and discovered that he owed five years of back support for a child he never knew he had. Not only did he have no rights and no part of the decision making process, he had no knowledge of the child. So he got socked with a $20k bill, had to make child support payments, and was only allowed to see his child once a month - a child who wanted nothing to do with him. How's that for fair?
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