Husband's Rights?????

During the Alito hearings today, Dianne Feinstein quoted Justice O’Conner, in reference to Planned Parenthood v Casey, “The state may not give to a man the kind of dominion and control over his wife that parents exercise over their children”. This quote suggested that Alito was equating wives with children when he ruled that married women must notify their husbands before having an abortion. This is and was an attempt to cloud the issue. Feinstein using this quote is her attempt to frame the argument of one of Women’s rights, however it is not so. Marriage is a contract that enforces shared responsibility on all parties. For example, if a woman gets the abortion, something goes wrong, and she needs to go to a real hospital, the husband will be financially responsible for those bills. If she dies, he will incur the cost. Not to mention the fact that the baby is his and he should at least know that this decision is being made. I realize that men do not have the same rights to their unborn children but certainly we are due the respect of notification. Alito simply ruled that a woman notifying her husband did not equate an undue burden save for some exceptions: full text


1. If the husband is not the father of the child
2. If he cannot be found after diligent effort
3. The pregnancy was a result of a spousal sexual assault and the authorities have been notified
4. The notification will lead to bodily harm on the woman

If it is, an undue burden for a wife to tell her husband that she is aborting their child then marriage need not worry about some alleged threat from gays because it is already meaningless.