transhumanism\/ethics discussion<\/a> in the other thread. And frankly, I don\u2019t really want this post to become open season on abortion arguments, so I\u2019d really like it if commenters limited themselves to the scope of the question.<\/p>\nOk, on to my answer. There\u2019s a really easy way for men (and women) to opt out of parental responsibilities, and it\u2019s called not having sex. If you choose to have intercourse, you can\u2019t opt-out of responsibility any more than you can opt-out of an STI if your protection fails or you used it improperly. Wearing a seatbelt and taking appropriate precautions doesn\u2019t let you opt-out of being injured in a car accident, it just improves your odds. If you have consensual sex with a woman and she gets pregnant, no matter how careful you were, you\u2019re on the hook for child support or half the cost of the abortion, depending on her choice.<\/p>\n
If you can\u2019t tolerate a risk of either of those responsibilities, good news! No one ever died from not having sex. If you are willing to be on the hook for one of either child support or an abortion, but one of those strikes you as practically or ethically unconscionable, you\u2019ve still got options: never have sex with someone if you disagree with them about how to handle an unexpected pregnancy.<\/p>\n
This is also my solution to casual sex culture, by the way. Fine, go have sex with people whose names you don\u2019t know, but only if you\u2019ve already had a conversation about your respective feelings about abortion. Don\u2019t feel comfortable enough to have that conversation with a stranger? Then no sex for you! <\/em> Too tipsy to get through the chat? No sex for you!<\/em> The other person brushes you off when you bring it up? No sex for you<\/em> (and what a lucky miss)! Clear that hurdle, and we can get into discussions about consent and communication and not objectifying or disrespecting your partner (and I don\u2019t buy into the \u2018it\u2019s ok if we\u2019re both\u00a0<\/em>treating each other as sex objects\u2019 argument). But if you don\u2019t clear agreeing-on-abortion hurdle, tough beans.<\/p>\n
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