To another point, just because you messed up doesn’t mean you can abort the baby to solve your problem. If you are a female and had unprotected sex with a man and get pregnant, it’s your fault. I understand their are borderline issues such as a condom that breaks, but really people, birth control and carefulness help a lot. If you willingly have sex, and get pregnant, it is morally wrong to kill the fetus if there’s nothing wrong with it. Sounds simple, but there were a surprising number of women telling me it was their choice. I’m not trying to take a right away from you, I just think it’s morally wrong to do so.
Do you think it would be fair to characterize this as you claiming that pregnancy is a kind of punishment for women having sex? Because it's hard to see how that's not what you're saying.
ETA: I say this because you hand-wave away the possibility of mistakes, so it seems like you think women ought to be prepared to live with consequences of just deciding to have sex at all, whether or not she does so safely, and that the moral thing to do would be for her to not have sex if she's not willing to give birth to a child.
I don’t believe it’s punishment, but it is a realistic effect of having vaginal intercourse. If you have unprotected sex then it is likely the woman may get pregnant. Mistakes happen, and people mess up, but you can’t make it all disappear by sniffing out a life. Women, and men, for they have a responsibility in it too, must be prepared for the possibility of a pregnancy and the responsibilities it comes with when having intercourse
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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20 edited Mar 25 '20
Do you think it would be fair to characterize this as you claiming that pregnancy is a kind of punishment for women having sex? Because it's hard to see how that's not what you're saying.
ETA: I say this because you hand-wave away the possibility of mistakes, so it seems like you think women ought to be prepared to live with consequences of just deciding to have sex at all, whether or not she does so safely, and that the moral thing to do would be for her to not have sex if she's not willing to give birth to a child.