In the "we needed a court decision to establish this!??" category, a judge has found that a woman has the right to keep the father of a child out of the delivery room at the child's birth. Here's the opinion, Plotnick v. Deluccia (yes, this is a New Jersey case.) Kudos to fathers who are passionate about being involved in the lives of their children, but Emily Bazelon at Slate summed it up:
Once the baby is born, it’s about the baby. Before that, though, it’s about the mother, too—there is just no way to separate her from the fetus. ... When men can have babies, then they can decide who comes into the delivery room. Until then, the limits of biology limit their rights.
