Honestly im conflicted. In an ideal word I’d say no. But we aren’t in an ideal world. There is also no way for us to verify if he really said that beforehand or not. it’s his word against hers. In long term relationships and stable relationships where these discussions are likely to happen before the pregnancy occurs, usually both know where they stand.
But when people are talking about cases of irresponsibility where a woman gets pregnant by a short term partner, that’s when these kind of discussions aren’t happening until the pregnancy is already there.
If we say men shouldn’t be forced to pay for a child they don’t want if they make it known beforehand, then what’s to stop the opposite argument? if a man wants a child and he makes it known to the woman beforehand, is she therefore forced to have a child she doesn’t want if she gets pregnant and doesn’t want the baby?
What happens if he says he doesn’t want a child, and she’s cool with that but also lets him know that while she doesn’t want a baby right then either she can’t morally see herself getting an abortion if she were to get pregnant. They both know where each other stands and still have sex and use condoms or birth control to prevent the pregnancy from happening.
But the birth control fails. What should be the outcome?
Is the woman forced to have an abortion because the man doesn’t want the child, or is the man forced to pay for a child he doesn’t want?
I know that wasn’t your question but it opens up a can of worms. I know a lot of women who’ve had abortions. And in only some of the cases were they not using any method of birth control and ended up pregnant. And in all of those cases those discussions didn’t happen until the pregnancy was already here.
I know cases where abortions have happened when they were using birth control or condoms but the method failed.
Is it fair for those woman who did have safe sex but still got pregnant to be lumped in as irresponsible for wanting abortion?
Do those surveys describing the reasons why women get abortions also share if the woman was engaging in safe sex or unprotected sex at the time of her pregnancy? Because I’ve never seen anything tracking that information, yet it’s assumed that the majority of these abortions are happening from women who are having raw sex. Or it’s assumed that the women who get the abortions have multiple abortions when that’s a small percentage.
maybe there needs to be a forced contract people have to fill out prior to every sexual encounter where they state where they stand. All I know is that our government doesn’t offer much support for the child after the pregnancy, and even during the pregnancy and labor.
The child support is about taking care of the child who didn’t ask to be here. It’s not the child’s fault that they were born and they still need food, shelter, care, education and parenting. Should the child be punished or go through hardship for their existence when they didn’t ask to be born? Who will provide for the child who didn’t ask to be born, when both the father and our society doesn’t want to? And now some of the same groups (men and republicans) are saying if she lives in a certain location she can’t get rid of the pregnancy?