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gurty@lemmy.world 4 days agoTbf, people who talk like this shouldn’t really have kids anyway so it’s an issue that resolves itself.
Comment on Just animal noises
gurty@lemmy.world 4 days agoTbf, people who talk like this shouldn’t really have kids anyway so it’s an issue that resolves itself.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 days ago
No it doesn’t. People fuck, kids happen. Recognizing people have human compulsions but don’t want to deal with the consequences requires forethought, whether that’s a condom, birth control, or sterilization. Fuck off with you “an issue that resolves itself” bullshit. Responsibility and self-awareness prevents it.
gurty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I have no idea what you are saying, did you reply to the wrong comment?
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 days ago
No. The implication that people who don’t want kids somehow don’t end up in situations where kids are produced is ludicrous. People don’t fuck just to make babies, but since that is a possibility, avoiding that outcome is a responsibility. Not everyone who doesn’t want kids automatically becomes a bad parent when they do occur, and not everyone who intentionally creates kids is a good parent.
gurty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No, people who call kids ‘disease vectors’ shouldn’t have kids, silly billy.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hasn’t been a serious issue since contraception became mainstream in the 70s.
I fuck all the time and have never had a kid naturally. I’ve got two adopted kids who are the loves of my life, though.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 days ago
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Source: www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_02/sr02-201.pdf
While there’s been a steady reduction in unwanted pregnancies since contraception and abortion were legalized, in the US alone around 35-40% of pregnancies are still unintended. That means in 2019 approximately 943,000 people came into this world as an “oops”.
I’m actually the result of an unplanned teen pregnancy and was adopted out (not the love of their lives however, more of an object upon which to heap their violence and rage). When I finally met my bio mom, who’s rad, after we’d gotten to know each other a bit she admitted she tried to abort me but was past the cutoff date by the time she realized. Some people don’t create children but become wonderful parents, some people don’t want kids but end up with them and make the choice to be good parents, some people desperately want to be parents but have selfish purposes.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A problem easily solved with expansion of access to contraception and abortion services.
These pregnancies are not the result of people fucking. They are the result of state and federal policy denying them access to baby-free sex.