(July 6, 2017 at 2:00 am)Aliza Wrote:(July 6, 2017 at 1:10 am)Losty Wrote: Yes I fully support the idea that a man should be able to opt out of parenthood within whatever same time frame a woman is allowed to opt for an abortion.
What if he does that to 15 or 20 women? 100 women? If he has no culpability at all to be responsible for the children he creates, then what's to stop him from running around and fulfilling his biological desire to maximize his reproductive opportunities?
Women are biologically inclined to want to have babies (at least I am once a month when I ovulate), and the big thing that prevents me from having a dozen babies is the time and money I'm not willing to freely invest in them. Women are flooded with hormones to make them bond with the growing fetuses in their wombs, so once they find out they're pregnant, they're already under the influence of some powerful hormones biologically designed to sabotage what may have been their previous desire to remain childless. -Adding to that, women do not get unlimited abortions without impacting their future fertility and chance of successfully carrying a baby to term when they're ready to have one. We don't just get to make 100 babies and terminate them all and expect that our bodies will recover each and every time. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/articl...ncies.html
Men are affected by no such hormonal change and their biological drive to reproduce will no longer be tempered by a dose of reality by having to be responsible for the lives they create.
The first question you're asking is whats stopping a man running around fulfilling his biological desire to maximize his reproductive opportunities.
The answer is women. They can choose to say no to sex, choose to use many forms of contraception or choose to make the man wear contraception.
Although I do agree with you that in the situation where a man can opt out of parenthood the same as a woman can it would require women to be more careful about sex. Because you're right that a woman can't really repeatedly go on having an abortions so a woman is more limited to her breeding capabilities.
I agree that it would be an unequal amount of care, the woman would have to be more careful than the man because there would be more at stake for the woman.
That might not be a bad thing for society, sexual selection acts as a big motivator for mens behavior, if women are picking out reliable, stable men to have sex with then that behavior is promoted in society.
These are my first thoughts, but its a complex issue and I could be totally wrong on the matter, I haven't voted in the poll yet.
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