If women can be imprisoned for abortions, why can't we also imprison the man involved with the intent to commit crime ?

I say this as a stalwart feminist, but what if the man had sex under the belief that his female partner was on the pill?

Sure, he should've used a condom anyway because y'know, STDs... but let's say it's more than a one night stand and it's actually a relationship of some sort.

Goddamn, there's nothing stopping me from tricking my boyfriend into getting me pregnant right now. All I have to say is: "It's alright, I'm on the pill, you can skip the condom." He only uses a condom to delay himself a bit, so I can ask him to leave it out whenever I want.

I absolutely do not want kids ever in my life, so fuck am I gonna ask him to stop with the condoms. But it's an example. We use both because we both absolutely do not want kids. So if I'm still on the pill and he doesn't use it (we've gone without it before) he wouldn't question it if I said "hey, let's skip the condom tonight."

It's all it would take. Me being a deceitful asshole and tricking him into fathering a child.

It's why I really want male contraception to be a thing soon. Firstly so I can stop taking this shit and getting horrific acne, and secondly so he can have peace of mind taking his own shit and never worrying about accidentally fathering a child.

Sure there's condoms, but condoms can break and other than that, it's all on the woman (which is pretty fair, we're the suckers who have to have the child grown inside us for 9 months) but men should have more control over it too if they're to have sex.

Should anyone be prosecuted for it though? Fuck, who knows. How can you prosecute someone for creating a life, or ending one while it's still in the womb. It's a tough one. I'm not religous at all so I don't give a fuck, but it's an interesting thing to think about.

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