Westfall wrote:This brings up an issue that really bothers me, and has the potential to effect anyone in this community.
It is the asymetrical and sexist IMO.
Consider if a man and a women have unprotected sex and the women gets pregnant.
She can, if she chooses, opt out of her financial obligations via abortion or adoption. She can also choose to abort the man's child.
The man, cannot. He is not given the oppertunity for a reproductive mulligan, and can be legally forced to pay for a child for 18 years (in some states even longer).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_abortion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubay_v._Wells
Men and women are biologically asymmetrical. There's nothing you can do about that.
If you want to make it legally equal (not sexist), then every time you have unprotected sex with a woman, make her sign a waiver stating that you will not be financially responsible if she gets pregnant.
However, it warrants mentioning that if you have unprotected sex with a woman, then you inject your sperm into her reproductive organ... you know, where she keeps her eggs. If one of your sperm fertalizes her egg, then you make a baby. I know I don't need to explain this to you, but then again you act as if you don't know that unprotected sex is the way you make a baby.
If you don't want to be financially responsible for a baby, then don't inject your sperm into a woman's vagina. It's really very simple.


