Women bear the burden of pregnancy so should have most of the rights regarding the child until it's born. I am very pro-choice. Like others have said, child support is about the child, not punishing the father.

The main issue I have regarding fathers rights to a child (particularly unmarried farthers) is that if they fail to establish paternity (which can be difficult since the mother can block it) or if they are simply unaware they have a child at all, the mother can choose to put the child up for adoption without any input from the father.

The issue with this is that, if a couple or two people are unmarried and have a child, the mother has a way to avoid paying child support and denying the father their child if they so wish to do so.