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I believe giving men the ability to sign away all financial responsibility after getting a girl pregnant is ridiculous. CMV.

Edit: Amablue's managed to CMV on this and whilst I'm not entirely in support of it, I no longer think of it as a ridiculous idea and definitely something I'd be more open to.

After having an argument with someone on Reddit, it became apparent that many people believe this to be a good idea and I fail to see why, so I've come to this subreddit, hoping someone could explain to me why it's a good idea.

One of the reasons people believe men should be able to do this is because  a woman is able to though abortion, however I believe that comparing the two is stupid. Having an abortion is very draining of a woman, both physically and mentally, making it a difficult choice to make, whereas signing away your rights is quick and easy. If a woman unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she has a difficult choice to make and makes it incredibly unfair on the woman for the man to simply walk away from it all. 

I'd like to mention that I believe the current ways things are handled are definitely in need of improving, I do not know how to improve, but giving men the ability to simply walk away from it all makes it even more unfair for women then it is currently for men. 

Please change my view.
gpt
There are arguments against the idea, but this is not a good one:

> Having an abortion is very draining of a woman, both physically and mentally, making it a difficult choice to make, whereas signing away your rights is quick and easy

Having an abortion may be draining, but so is raising and financing a child you didn't want for 18 years. 

The crux of the issue is that prior to pregnancy, men and women both have a way to prevent a child from being conceived - they can both use protection, or even just be abstinent. In the case of an accident though, all power shifts to the woman. She now can make a unilateral decision that affect both parents for the rest of their lives. 

Don't get me wrong, women absolutely should the right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. It's their body, and their right. But the fact that we grant all people the right to over their bodies means that we've created a situation where women can now have undue control over men's lives potentially. 

I think this quote sums up the idea well:

> If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

> -- Karen DeCrow, former NOW President ( National Organisation for Women, U.S.A.)

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> giving men the ability to simply walk away from it all makes it even more unfair for women then it is currently for men. 

Why do you say that? If a woman doesn't want to have a pregnancy, she can end it. That's a right that she is afforded that a man is not. She doesn't have to undergo having a child if she doesn't want to.