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I agree with Pink - including the part about needing to be accountable for your choices, INCLUDING who you sleep with. Which is why if I was a guy I think I'd wear about six condoms every time I slept with a girl. Ha, especially if it wasn't a relationship, and therefore there wasn't some serious trust already established. (Don't make me tell the story again about the Marine who boinked the waitress on a one night stand. She said she was on birth control, wasn't, and called him 6 months later to ask him if he wanted to be there for the birth. My own little "Wear condoms! Even when you're not having sex!" story.)

Plus, when was the last time you heard of an abortion clinic asking for TWO signatures to perform the procedure? It's the woman's body and the woman's responsibility to take care of her body (including preventing pregnancy, if that's not medically/financially/emotionally a viable option.)

I agree that the father should take responsibility, but sometimes that just doesn't happen. I have girlfriend working in social work in a couple cities, and it sounds like law enforcement usually *doesn't* get involved until tens of thousands of dollars are at stake. At that point, I imagine, you've pretty well gotten adjusted to being a single mom and making it on your own.




Val's right though -- there ARE girls out there who'll just up and decide to go off the pill. But there are also girls out there who'll decide not to tell their sexual partner they're infected with herpes, so I think that falls into the "chose carefully who you have sex with" category. Again, I think if I was a guy, regardless of my age and the stability of my relationship, if I did not want a baby I would wear a condom every time I had sex. That's a lot of responsibility to trust someone else with. Especially considering the Pill isn't 100% effective when taken perfectly... and so few women take it perfectly.