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BTW, for the sake of this thread we're not discussing rape or ineffective prophylactics. This is unprotected sex between two consenting adults. We can have other threads about those other situations.
MM, I'm not suggesting that pregnancy is easy at all. Quite the opposite, which is why this is so complicated. The point I've been trying to make, though, is that the woman and man both decide to have sex. The woman decides right there along with the man. Just as a man should have to pay child support for his child, a woman should bear some level of responsibility. A function of said responsibility should be bearing a child that she helped to create if the man is willing and able to take care of it. I'm sure it's very emotionally and financially painful for a man to pay a good part of his wages to a woman he obviously doesn't want to be with and who he may not want raising his children. I've seen this drive a man to near-suicide, in fact. Just because one is a man doesn't mean that one is incapable of being hurt. Anyone, regardless of gender, can be emotionally damaged.
I cannot begin to imagine the pain of having someone I don't love steal my children and raise them without me. Or worse, have them killed before he or she is even born. That would likely scar me for the rest of my life.
If people irresponsibly have unprotected sex, they are both running the risk of being put in a situation where they are emotionally damaged as a direct result of their own actions.
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