Reply #368: I understood your response, I just thought it was inaccurate and probably irrelevant [View All]

If someone is not merely risking conception by using a condom or other birth control, but is intentionally forgoing contraception, aren't they choosing to have a child?

I thought it was inaccurate because, no, someone who intentionally foregoes contraception is not choosing to have a child. They are choosing to engage in unprotected sex. A pregnancy may or may not result. If the same couple got in the car to drive three blocks to the gas station and deliberately decided to forego putting on their safety belt, they wouldn't be *choosing* to go flying through the windshield, even if they were in an accident on the way to the store and did, in fact, go flying through the windshield.

I thought it was pretty much irrelevant because it doesn't really address the issues that I raised in the post you were responding to, and instead tries to shift the focus of your claim--heretofore that any woman who engages in consensual sex is choosing to carry a child to term--to assert a much more limited claim.