So, I had to do a new post (never done two in one day before) to call attention to a great point that was just brought up in the comments.

From "Anonymous" (and please people, stop using anonymous as your handle! Just make up something original PULEEZE)

Some of the people who posted that men should get to opt out of fatherhood/child support responsibilities seem to want to PUNISH women for being pro-life when it comes to their own bodies.

The whole "if she chooses to have a baby he doesn't want, SHE should have the sole responsibility of supporting it fiscally" is the most fucked thing I've probably ever read.

If we want people to respect OUR choices when it comes to NOT having babies, we have to respect theirs when it comes to having babies. Trying to punish women financially for carrying a baby they feel an obligation to just because the man doesn't "want it" is bullcrap.

There's a price attached to sex sometimes that must be paid. It isn't "fair" but neither is life.

I gotta admit, Anon has a point I didn't contemplate. We want people to respect our decision to be pro-choice with our bodies but when a woman dares to be pro-life with regard to her own body, we look down on it if she doesn't have the support of a man.

The POV many of you expressed in support of "opting out" reads like this:

"If a woman gets pregnant and the man doesn't want a child, the woman shouldn't have it under any circumstances. If she goes against HIS wishes and chooses to have it, she should be punished by having to support the child on her own."

Is this what you guys were trying to express or has Anon construed it incorrectly? Are you advocating that men should have the final say in whether a woman carries his baby to term and if the woman doesn't DO AS HE SAYS, her punishment is to pay the kid's way ALONE for the entirety of it's life?

Sounds more and more like empowering men while denigrating women to me...here we go again, putting men in control of a woman's choice.

I don't like it one bit.

Please feel free to express or defend your POV in the comments on the post below. As long as it's posted respectfully, it's all good! I really wanna hear from all of you and I'd like to know whether these recent points have changed your opinions in any way.