Originally Posted by
Alenarien
Not at all, women should be free to have full autonomy over their bodies; but it's a slippery slope to put bodily autonomy over fiscal/material autonomy. The matter however is relatively simple;
Women hold all the get-out-of-jail-free cards; Women, like men, know the consequences and likelihoods of conception during sex, yet are at liberty to employ measures such as the morning-after pill/abortion/adoption etc once the child is born. They hold all the cards over the child, and all the cards over the man involved, regardless of the motives/actions that lead to the conception.
Men however, are at the mercy of women; his financial well-being subject to what the woman decides. Should she keep the child, it doesn't matter what he wants; the woman if she wanted, might simply abort or forfeit the child, whereas the man is subject to law regardless of what he desires.
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I can't recall you having stated that in these cases the father should be absolved of responsibility to the child he did not want and whose conception he had no say in, however.