[Age of Reason]

I do remember an old friend whose girlfriend deliberately got herself pregnant from him one night when he was extremely intoxicated. I still wince when I visualize him standing in court attempting to explain that he should not be paying for child support because he had never had any intention of fathering children with the girl, and she had ignored his wishes. Needless to say, the judge did not care and the support was ordered. He has never seen the child and to this day he swears she did it deliberately.

Whether she planned it or not, it should not be his responsibility.

The woman agreed to have sex with him.

She must have known that having sex with a man might get her pregnant.

Just like a woman who agrees to have sex with a leper must know that she might get sick.

Her catching pregnancy should no more be the responsibility of the man than her catching leprosy.

This business of courts seeing it as the man's responsibility is government's way of escaping welfare payments.

It's not about what's right. It's about the money.

[papertyger]

Whether she planned it or not, it should not be his responsibility. The woman agreed to have sex with him. She must have known that having sex with a man might get her pregnant.

I've always wondered why, with the advent of Roe v. Wade, no one went after this practice on the Constitutional grounding of the "equal protection" clause.

It seems to me, inherently unjust for the woman to have "reproductive choice" from the time she finds out she's pregnant until the actual birth, yet men are stridently commanded (particularly by women) to make that choice before she's even pregnant.