Do fathers have rights to say whether they want a child or not when the mother wants an abortion?

Do fathers have rights to say whether they want a child or not when the mother wants an abortion?
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I feel like we definitely talked this over before but I can’t find where. I fundamentally believe that each person responsible for a child should have a say BUT the person who is to carry that child inside themselves and birth it when they do not want to…gets MORE of a say. That’s just logistical. Emotionally, I feel for every father whose partner aborts without talking it out with them (unless they feel violence is a threat, then they’re justified in doing so). Ideally, it should be possible for a father to pay the bio mom expenses of prenatal and postnatal periods and raise the child on his own if he truly wants the child and the mother’s role will end once the baby is born.
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