Yes everyone involved should be responsible for their own contraception but that doesnt always happen in which case there should be regulation because people will act selfishly unless told otherwise and a human life is too big of a decision to slump off. Yes, I have full custody of three kids. I have largely done it on my own. Ive been a father since 21 so its just a role ive assumed and its something I enjoy. Im sorry but when you involve yourself in the most basic biological function of reproduction your body now belongs to the child or the potential child as some would believe. It takes two people to make a child, right now anyways, in which case the other person involved has vested interest to say the least so I believe in fathers rights from the day of conception. My body, my choice is a gross negligence of biological facts.
We have moved past biology in many respects.
When you fly in an airplane, you are moving past your biology.
When you look through a telescope to see far back into the universe you are moving far past the ability of your unaided eyes.
If you treat cancer with modern medicine in an attempt to survive you have moved past biology.
Drilling for oil and making millions of products from it is beyond our biology.
Using anabolic steroids is moving beyond ones biology.
Using frozen embryos to artificially inseminate is beyond biology.
I could basically go on all day long with this.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Most opposition to abortion rests on the idea that a fetus is a "being" in the process of "becoming" and that we all are in the process of becoming until we die. Yes it would make sense from biology that we were all in this early phase of development once and we are all in the process of developing as we age.
The problem is, this places priority to the fetus in early development phase when the fetal development isn't far enough along to have a CNS. If you don't have a CNS and you abort. Yes you have aborted a being in the process of becoming, but you haven't aborted a being with sentience before 5 weeks. This would force very early detection of unwanted pregnancies, hyper diligence on the part of the sexually active female with weekly pregnancy urine testing, with most urine pregnancy tests showing positive in 7 days of conception.
If I make laws that are so draconian that all life must be protected at all cost, where does it end? Can I not come up to you and tell you to give me a kidney if mine is in failure?
Perhaps you have cancer and I happen to be a perfect match for you through a tissue data bank. You will need monthly donations of bone marrow to survive, but I don't want to donate for various reasons. Does the government have the right to force me to donate because you might die?
You do have a right to life, but you don't have the right at the expense of someone else's body.
Unwanted pregnancies aren't a good thing. Unfit parents are a tragedy for the children that must grow up in this environment. We have all seen when well off parents that are highly educated raise kids to be the same thing....Doctors having children that go onto be Doctors. We have also seen when poor families with little education raise kids to be just like them, poor education, pregnant at an early age and the vicious cycle continues.
Most of these single moms that are young aren't looking at this issue with any depth, because they are incapable of deep philosophical thought, they are at a station in life where they simply shouldn't be parents in an age where we have hyper competition for jobs and resources, if you aren't in the top 50% you're not doing well and your progeny statistically have little chance of doing well either. We shouldn't just be concerned with economics as there are other issues, but who wants to be on the bottom kicked around made to suffer for most of your life when we live in a capitalistic society that strongly looks down on all forms of socialism, even if we do spend heavily, but we mostly spend on the elderly on their way out.