Or maybe they shouldn't be engaging in sex unless both parties are prepared for the possibility of a child, considering that that is the purpose of sex regardless of whether or not you're engaging in it for that purpose.
Not everybody knows that, it's a recent conception, a social norm rather than true knowledge.666Chaos said:Wait so her options are either be rich or get an abortion? The man is equally at fault because he got her pregnant. Everybody knows that if you get somebody pregnant that you are responsible for the child. Since it is the womens body getting an abortion is and should be 100% her choice. It is not like it is a 100% safe procedure or anything.sethzard said:Why? If she's from a family of money then she could pay for it, and if she refuses to get an abortion on religious rights then it's her fault in my opinion.
You want the ability to go around fucking anything that moves but you dont want to deal with the responsibility that comes with that. In my opinion that is just childish.
How is it 50/50 if the woman is forcing the man to pay for a child he didin't want to get? In my case the woman can choose to either take or not take the child, not causing anymore mischief to either one. What I'm trying to say is that the woman has more control over protection than the man, and we still make it solely the mans responsibility.666Chaos said:This thread is seriously fucked up.
Right so your arguement is to bring up something that I never even touched on. I never once said it was the mans responsibility alone. It is 50/50 both the man and womens responsibility to use protection. Just like how after child birth you can either choose to pay child support and ignore the child or to get joint custody. You are trying to lay 100% of the responsibility on the women which is just not right.A Weakgeek said:THERE IS NO WAY THE WOMAN DIDIN'T KNOW THAT THEY HAD NO PROTECTION. Why does the man have the responsibility on protection? Its 100 times more easy for a woman to lie about protection since you can clearly see if a man has a condom or not. If you are going to keep a child no matter what then you should be prepared to support yourself. THE WOMAN has the choice here, before AND after sex. Why doesen't she have the responsibility aswell?
EDIT: I'm not mad, and as an afterthought all that caps wasn't a good idea
In that instance, they would have to declare their wish not to have a child pre-birth.Colour-Scientist said:Except that a rented house and a child are incomparable.William MacKay said:To answer your first question, yes that would be the only fair way. but what i'm saying is that if the father doesnt want to keep the child and the mother does, why should the father have to pay child support. imagine if you and your wife live in a rented house/apartment. you move out because you break up and you hate the house. if it fair for you to keep paying rent?
You can't just abandon a child because you got burnt by a relationship going sour. It's a person, a person you helped to create and is therefore your responsibility until it is old enough to care for itself.
Besides, have you any idea how easily that system could be abused. Say, a man and a woman are engaged, they agree to have a baby at some point in the future but something goes wrong with their contraception(as is prone to happen) and they have an unplanned pregnancy. At first they both embrace it, the child is born and both a living together happily. Then the relationship ends badly, the father denies ever wanting the child in the first place and due to the law in place can immediately abandon all responsibility leaving the mother to bear the burden alone, without any financial aid.
Gays and lesbians never even crossed my mind.trooper6 said:You can have love and be intimate without putting a penis in a vagina. Or are you saying that gays and lesbians are incapable of loving, intimate, and fulfilling sex lives?Anti Nudist Cupcake said:People want to love, to be intimate. Not all people do but certainly some people. We can't punish them if the protection fails. And it certainly CAN fail.666Chaos said:But that is not doing everything to prevent that because doing everything would include not sticking your dick in somebody.Anti Nudist Cupcake said:Even when he did everything he could to prevent that?
I'm sorry, but that's just not an acceptable solution.
Just a few things here:wolas3214 said:-snip-
You realise many of these procedures increase the chances of not being able to have children in the future right? And while I agree that... people shouldn't breed like that, it's still not a viable option to force these systems on people. Even if it was an option, the scale of it is just far too large.RachaelHill13 said:Personally I think we should just skip to mandatory reproductive inhibiting surgery/drugs for everyone until they have proved themselves to be responsible enough to handle rearing a child. Pill/injection form birth control exists for both males and females, and so do surgeries. Both of these options can be either permanent or temporary (yes, even surgical). There are far too many stupid people in the world as it is, and generally these are the ones who are going to be running around having unprotected sex. It's not a matter of choice in this regard, it's a matter of some people just being too dumb to care/know better.
Unfortunately being safe doesn't always work either, I'm a stalwart example of the 99.9% chance of condoms+birth control = baby. This is always going to have a chance of happening, which we're just going to have to deal with. However in the long run it's going to prevent more babies being brought into the world by people too dumb and/or irresponsible to give the child a good life.
And yes I know this means certain civil rights would have to be stepped on. But really, isn't the raising of children, arguably the most important thing to the survival of the human race, worth it? I think so. Honestly, it takes a test to prove you can drive, pilot other machines, and the like, but anyone with a dick and a vagina can just willy-nilly make a kid? This isn't a terrifying thought?
depends on what country your in bloke...meganmeave said:He kind of does. He just has to avoid putting his dick in things with receptive ovums.If a man doesn't want a child, he should be able to have control over what happens to his genetic material
Seriously, guys, if you think this is a big problem, put some sperm on ice and get yourself a vasectomy. This may sound blunt, but you really do ultimately have control over your own sperm. Unrealistic? Maybe. But so is the idea that you are going to be running around forcing women to abort because you got too drunk to put on a condom.
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Wait? What? When did this become free now? You've been watching too much Fox news.it's legal and free to do so