Reply To: Moral Choice 2

Most of the time, laws are made to deal with realistic possibilities.  Your problem is so unlikely to be a frequent one, the judges would have to apply whatever law was closest to what they wanted.  This means in different states, you’d have different charges for the same act, depending on what law was available to apply.

Since the USA is so enamoured of women having babies, I suspect the law would try to find that the man lost his veto power when he handed over the sperm for procreation purposes.

He would then be made responsible for half the costs of raising the child.  At this point, he would have a ‘grievance’ and could sue her for forgery to reclaim the cost of the child support which resulted directly from her act.