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except as a man i cant die during a pregnancy or get saddled with pregnancy related illnesses for the rest of my life.

• Symmetry 10y ago
  Well, the death rate for births in the US right now is .9 per 10,000 which is thankfully pretty low compared to what it used to be and is about the same as driving to work for a year. A lot lower than the percentage of people in this study who got depression and committed suicide, for example (though who knows if that was causal). Of course in terms of discomfort, trauma, having your life turned upsidedown, etc you certainly can't compare paying alimony to having to give birth to a child.
• nxc18 10y ago
  You can get saddled with the cost of raising an unwanted child for 18 years. I don't understand why women would want to keep a child on such an illegitimate basis (without the father's consent) but it does/can happen and is horrifying. Men have not right to choose, unlike women, which makes some sense, but can put you in a pretty nasty pickle.
• deno 10y ago
  That’s why I didn’t really commit to that argument, leaving it as hypothetical. For one thing, not all women would even consider abortion of pregnancy as an option, due to personal beliefs. There’s also emotional impact of such decision to consider. The point was not to put absolute values on the risk of unprotected sex for either gender. I’ve only tried to illustrate that men have, just as women, enough of an incentive to consider protection a very serious matter.