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You can have a baby with protected sex. No birth control except abstinence is 100% effective. It is much worse if you look only at methods that men have control

You can have a baby with protected sex. No birth control except abstinence is 100% effective. It is much worse if you look only at methods that men have control over. Birth control for men is still quite limited. There is not a single non-permanent method that has a effectiveness of over 90% per year per couple. The closest to that is the condom: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/condom https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/condom Giving men equal rights in the decision to become a parent would mean giving them the right to legal parental surrender.

dogma1138 4y ago
> Giving men equal rights in the decision to become a parent would mean giving them the right to legal parental surrender. That’s the point people seem to overlook. There is no particularly good reason why all men should not be able to surrender parental rights especially early on say during the first trimester and essentially be treated as sperm donors as far as the law goes (tho from my understanding in some or even many jurisdictions sperm donors aren’t protected from that either beyond their anonymity). At that point the woman still has a choice if she wishes to continue with the pregnancy on her own or terminate it. Basically it would turn the equation from do you want to have a child to do you want to have a child without any financial support from the father.