Yes, fathering children cost money. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

A recent article in NPR lamented that, quote, the end of Roe v. Wade has huge economic implications

for male partners too. According to a study quoted in the piece, men involved with a pregnancy

and whose partners had an abortion were nearly four times more likely to graduate college

than those whose partners gave birth.

And males under the age of 20 were more likely to earn more money if their partner had an abortion

instead of carrying the child to turn.

Well, I guess we should thank the reporter for proving that legal abortion has always incentivized

the financial well-being of men over the lives of the children they father.

But presenting this as some kind of hardship for men

is reminiscent of British slaveholders arguing against abolition by warning that sugar would cost

too much without the free labor. The whole moral picture is upside down. Instead of arguing for

legalized abortion on the basis of disadvantaging men, I'll happily vote for the new idea

that other abortion advocates

have recently come up with, requiring men to be financially committed to the lives they create.

You know, like they're supposed to be.

I'm John Stone Street.