On the surface of it, this seems like an extreme view. In fact, I would call it an extreme view. But it has made me wonder what's behind it. She's a mormon, which as far as I know is very patriarchal. No, extremely patriarchal. From that point of view, if men are 100% responsible for pregnancies, then that gives them 100% of the decision on abortion. Shouldn't it? By a mormon's reasoning. So to me, this seems an insidious assertion designed to appeal to women and get them to shoot themselves in the foot, as it were.

She has more than one point there.

When I was a lot younger I forgot and left some condoms at a woman’s apartment. Later I joked that I like to keep stashes of condoms all around town at various women’s houses. She said she’d put the condoms in a jar with my name on it and put the jar on the shelf alongside all the other jars of condoms left by various men. By that age I had humor, and also I understood caution.

When I was a lot LOT younger the instinctive urge to couple was extreme and I had no thought of the consequences. Actually I wanted there to be children. It was seize the day, full steam ahead, and let the future take care of itself. I suspect that you can talk yourself blue in the face about using condoms but many young guys won’t hear a word because they are on autopilot.

Nature wants babies, but she also wants us to care and be responsible for those babies 100%.

I do not care for people who refuse to take personal responsibility, of any gender.

Well - it was an interesting read, if nothing else. I can't speak for all women - but I, personally, would never have relied on any man to make sure I didn't get pregnant. Call it paranoia - whatever - I think there are not very many things in life that are as impactful as an unwanted/unplanned pregnancy....raising children is hard enough - I'm happy to say that both of mine were planned and very much wanted. Just my two cents worth....

Men do not have to orgasm to get a woman pregnant. Precum can do that.

Otherwise she is dead on - this is food for thought.

I understand the emotional content of this; I don’t expect responses will, or perhaps even should, remain purely dispassionate. But I hope reason and accurate biological descriptions will be tolerated as well. I’ll also look forward to those more insightful critiques being delivered by women, instead of men, because there is no ground for men to stand on that won’t be seen, rightly or wrongly, as defensive. I would love to see this article examined with scientific rigor.

I love how so many men still cry and play the victim.
Poor little dears.
So victimized.
My heart bleeds.

I have question?? So is every sexual encounter involving a male and a female now considered rape?

Because just like driving while intoxicated you knew the risk the moment you started so to blame a man for you allowing him to ejaculate inside of you is the same blaming the poor bastard as the distillery for putting the booze in the bottle you’re drinking out of while driving.

But if we actually look at as that she’s saying that abstinence before marriage is the only real way to hopefully insure that there’s no unwanted pregnancies then yeah sure got ya.

Shitty education is to blame for most unwanted pregnancies. If you do like school todays and teach teens nothing.... No, wait. That's unfair of me.
'If you teach teens that condoms are a form of murder' (fixed it) and to "just say no" what will happen is the teens will use rumors floating around on how to prevent pregnancy. For example, by standing up while having sex.
Idiots at my school believed that - and equally idiotic myths - would work. Take a wild stab in the dark at how well that worked out.

Uninformed people make uninformed decisions. Why is it so hard for some to understand that?

The old term of "She's setting her sight's" on a good Man, so is she going to shoot him or try to make him hers?

I too think men shoudl be held responsible. Hold men financially accountable for any kids they create and suddenly they will take more of an interest in making sure they don't happen.

Does the thinking of "Trapping a Man" by being pregnant still happen? I believe that was the mindset many years ago(probably wrong now).

Yes she makes good points but taking responsibility from either party is silly . Both need to use protection for extra security most contraceptive's are only,99% effective so if both parties use one each then it makes the chances of getting pregnant even less likely