copgutz [she/her]
I agree that parents have a responsibility to their child but abortion gives me an option to not become a parent even if I become pregnant and I think there should be an equivalent just on a shorter clock.
Obviously they’d need to pay if they don’t take the parental termination route early enough, but there are situations where someone can have sex and not intend to get pregnant, and so I think it logically follows that someone can have sex while not intending to get someone pregnant. It might be contraceptives failing, a hookup, or any other number of reasons. If the carrier lets the other person know quickly why should there not be a way for them to say “I don’t want to be a parent even if you decide to keep it”?
You said “I don’t think people should be able to abandon their responsibilities if they aren’t willing to put in the work.” Should a pregnant person be allowed to have a medical abortion if they aren’t willing to put in the work or should they have to just tough it out and become a parent anyway? Personally I don’t think anyone should have to give a reason to have an abortion, so even if their reason is they don’t want the work or financial burden of a child that’s more than enough.
I’m not suggesting at all that this be attainable any time other than in the early weeks of pregnancy, but I’m hesitant to suggest an exact week because I’m not trying to write a law as much as rethink what a legal abortion could mean.
There are foreseeable problems I don’t have answers to though, like what if the carrier does not inform their partner of the pregnancy until it is too late to seek parental termination, but then we’re really just in the situation we are now.
If I need to put it in cisheteronormative terms to make it more understandable, I think men should be able to get abortions too, just via paperwork instead of a pill or surgery.
:jesus-christ: I realized the MRAs have a huge issue with child support but there are other solutions.
Abortion would need to be federally protected first, but I think having a legal framework for the inseminator to relinquish parental rights as well might be good. It would have to be done early enough for the carrier to be able to terminate the pregnancy if the inseminator does go this route, and would relieve them of the responsibility of paying for child support as well as all visitation rights. It could be as easy as filling out a form with a notary public, getting both parties’ signatures.
This would be rough without a bit more financial assistance for carriers who then still decide to raise the child alone, but at least they’ll have a heads-up if their partner never intended to pay child support, and never have to worry about a custody battle.
I should say I’ve never had to deal with child support personally, as a parent or child, but I have had friends whose dads never paid and their moms had long given up fighting for it. I also have a friend who became pregnant, decided to keep it under the impression that her partner was sticking around to raise it, and he left her mid-pregnancy, and afaik is not paying child support.
From my perspective, skewed as it may be, I’d like to know as early as possible if the person who gets me pregnant has no intention of providing for it, and I think giving a way to terminate parenthood early on in the pregnancy would encourage those who are going to leave to make that decision quickly enough for the carrier to take that into account when making the decision to keep it, as having a reliable partner would heavily weigh on my decision. This is just an idea to try to both give inseminators an out, and put a timer on that decision, like abortion.
Thanks, this was helpful, as is @Tapirs10 's input. It is an alt-history thing and includes some supernatural forces as well, including mad scientists who can basically create the gun Abe was just shot with. I’m pretty comfortable with figuring it out from a stats perspective, but wanted to learn a bit more as to what might be in common use taking into account things like service weapons for various forces and the chances of those being as available to the commonfolk mostly for flavor purposes. This is not the complete list https://imgur.com/fiwsH8m but it does have the LeMat you mentioned. I had to look that one up to understand why the stats were listed as such, and had a good chuckle thinking about fanning the hammer on that and ending it with a blast of buckshot towards my posse.
Frankly, I probably don’t need too much as it’s fairly divergent from an accurate historical timeline. I am really just getting into the details to flesh things out and bring it to life in my head before I bring it to my players. I’ve also been looking up old photographs to understand the clothing of the time, terrain of the area, existing rail networks, and that has all been much more interesting.
I was more referring to that this game (Deadlands) has a sizeable list of specific models. For example, there are 9 types of Colt Revolvers. Beyond deciding for combat flavor if I want them to run single or double-action firing mechanisms, should I really be bothered with the difference in a Colt Army and a Colt Dragoon? Maybe I should have crossposted in guns so the people who care about this can tell me exactly what an illiterate Pinkerton toady would be packing.
lmao what a nightmare. Thankfully this one seems to have plenty of sidebars and tables for the most critical information. I’m still taking my own notes while reading through things just to help me retain what I’m reading, but it feels like there will be something I inevitably overlook. Thankfully, I think my prospective players will be forgiving and bear with my mistakes.
Have any reporters asked him why Loving v. Virginia was not included in that list?