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Looks like lepustimidus has been vindicated
Ironically, that wasn't the point of this thread.
Admittedly, I had an ulterior motive. In regards to abortion, many pro-lifers are willing to allow the mother to obtain a abortion after being raped. This often raises the (retarded) argument from pro-choicers that pro-lifers are woman-haters interested in nothing more than punishing the woman for having sex.
With this thread, I posted an analogous situation to gauge whether pro-choicers felt the same way about a man who is raped and the must pay child support.
After all, every person I've met is empathic that a father who willingly has sex and gets a woman pregnant should pay child support.
On the other hand, this thread has clearly demonstrated that the majority believe that a man who is raped, and as a result impregnates a woman, should not have to pay.
This poses the question to pro-choicers: Is child support simply a means of punishing a man? If child support were actually done for the child, why don't they expect a man who is raped to provide it?
And then you come to the conclusion: Child support isn't about punishing men, or just about the child, but also about holding men accountable for the outcomes of their willing actions. Likewise, when a pro-lifer want to allow raped women to procure abortions, while preventing women who had willing sex from doing likewise, this isn't meant to be punitive. But just like with the man who willingly had sex, they must accept responsibility for their behaviour.