Rarely do I write about men on this site, mostly because they have incredibly limited reproductive rights. However, yesterday a woman not far from me was killed because her child's father didn't want to pay child support. Eric & I were discussing this, and he postulated that perhaps if the man had more involvement in the reproductive decision-making, perhaps the man wouldn't have murdered the women. (Eric, in no way, was excusing the man's actions). Another friend says the court creates the incentives for the man to commit murder, because as long as he doesn't get caught, he gets his "kids, belongings and future earnings back." (This unnamed friend, of course, does not condone murder, but still isn't comfortable standing by his statement.)
It is a complicated legal issue, but once a child exists, the court applies the best interests of the child standard, and has been known to do some things that seem pretty unfair. There are the stolen sperm cases, breach of contract suits, and the recent "Roe v. Wade for men" suit (which was dismissed). So any men's rights would have to be applied before the child is born - even contracts about child support are generally unenforceable (see: best interests of the child), as fans of the Fed-Ex divorce will have read.
And the law reflects this - as it stands now, men really only have control over their sperm, and not even that much (see: stolen sperm). If a man wants to not pay child support, he can use a condom, but a) they're not 100% (sorry Stephen), and b) a woman could take sperm from said condom, impregnate herself, and then the man could have to pay child support. Honestly, I'm not sure what the answer is.
Perhaps if men really are implanted with wombs, things will change. In that case, men will have the same legal rights as a surrogate, likely, although probably will have the responsibilities of an intentional parent. And as long as we're talking about men, did you know they, too, have a biological clock? It appears that this clock is truly physical, where it's my understanding that a woman's biological clock is also emotional/psychological.