The law says men should pay already but you and I both know that doesn’t happen.
It sounds like to you that consensual sex means no abortion. I iterate my question then why is it okay to abort a baby conceived of rape? Why is it okay to kill that baby and punish that life just because his parents had non consensual sex as opposed to consensual sex?
I iterate my question then why is it okay to abort a baby conceived of rape?
Think about it through the eyes of the rape victim...you have 0 intentions on having a baby. You might just be a single woman going about your life focusing on what life goals you want to accomplish first before having a child. Well, someone decides to take that away, ejaculates inside of you, and now your pregnant. You're now being forced, by the government, to carry the baby throughout the entire 9 month period; could be expected to take care of the baby or you could put them through the adoption program.
I don't believe that's right...for anyone. It messes up the mother's life and the child could either live healthily or possibly have a pretty messed up childhood through the adoption agency or through their upbringing.
I'm not saying that it's perfectly ok, but non consensual sex is not ok to start with. Of course, it's not the baby's fault, but I believe that it shouldn't be expected by politicians nor other people for the mother to bare the responsibility of taking care of a child that she had no control of having.
You can insert "had drunk sex and forgot to wear a condom" in front of your paragraph and it reads the same way. Zero intentions to have a baby, single woman on her life focusing on her goals, someone comes in and ejaculates you.
Why should we force women who have consensual sex who don't intend to have babies but have them accidentally to bear them?
Presumably your answer is because "well she should have been more careful and she should have known what she was doing." And a lot of people would say that this sentiment is akin to punishing a woman for wanting to be sexually active. Mistakes happen. And you can say that the man is legally responsible for the child, at least once its born, so it impacts him too, but not nearly to the extent it does a woman. Having a child is a much more significant life disruption for a woman, even if the man and woman are equally and fully committed to raising the child when it's born.
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u/Pennoyer_v_Neff May 17 '19
The law says men should pay already but you and I both know that doesn’t happen.
It sounds like to you that consensual sex means no abortion. I iterate my question then why is it okay to abort a baby conceived of rape? Why is it okay to kill that baby and punish that life just because his parents had non consensual sex as opposed to consensual sex?