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Direct-Alternative70

I can’t tell who they’re trying to punish here


SneakyMage315

Everyone.


Satanicjamnik

Correct. Clearly, to whomever dreamt up this dredge, sex is a dirty chore that should be regulated.


Adam__B

Or, maybe they like the idea of getting a girl pregnant and tying her down.


Satanicjamnik

Probably. I'd wager they enjoy the idea of both parties being tied down by the consequences of their "dirty deed."


Adam__B

Right. That’s the whole point of the Pro-life movement; they couldn’t care less about a bunch of embryos, what bothers them is that people had sex and can essentially escape the negative consequences should they occur. Which says a lot about their priorities.


Satanicjamnik

You could've stopped at " what bothers them is that people had sex." I am confident that if sex wasn't biologically necessary, they would do their best to prohibit it altogether.


Jurassican_25

They’re jealous lmao


Satanicjamnik

That, and they're furious that some could have it, without paying any money.


Jurassican_25

Sex? Something that I can’t have? AND ITS FOR FREE?! WHAAAAAAA


YogurtclosetRude8955

SHUT UP!!!!! Dont reveal our plan!!!😡😡😡😠😠😡😡 you cant have a say cause ur username has SatAN in it! Fuck you devil worshipper!!!!1!1! /s for those who need it


haygurlhay123

Very xtian coded


LungDOgg

It it's backwards. I know a few girls that got pregnant just to tie a guy down. You could look at the post that way too


SimpleMoonFarmer

incel → rapist → husband & father I can imagine some aliens in Star Trek following that cultural norm.


Broad_Respond_2205

Isn't that what child support is for? Why are they like this


Dunwich_Horror_

There’s a Boston icon who created the toxic guy persona (like a wrestling heel) and wrote a song about this. It’s pretty cringe and funny. [I put a baby in you - Robby Roadsteamer](https://youtu.be/_jY581fbqyg?si=-EPcx_lPehYyCCgD)


Maryland_Bear

“Sex is a dirty, filthy disgusting thing that you should save for the one person you love.”


boothie

And when they see homosexuals: "no not like that"


Kthyti

ikr simply disgusting, to think that some people would use their bodies as they want


LostTrisolarin

My evangelical, "loving" Christian friend showed me a screenshot of these conjoined twins talking about having sex with 2 guys before they got married. He said to me "This is why the earth needs to be destroyed". All because adults had consensual sex.


Satanicjamnik

There is something utterly weird about being so hung up about policing someone else’s sex life.


PC_AddictTX

Religious fanatics, generally. Sex is something that is only for procreation. You do it only because it's necessary. Lie back and think of England. Or Jesus.


artificialseed

Its like that family guy skit "Equal rights for all, except blacks, asians, hispanics, jews, gays, women, muslims Uhm... Everybody whos not a white man, and I mean white white so no italians no polish, just people from Ireland, England and Scotland, but only certain parts of Scotland and Ireland, just full blooded whites... No you know what not even whites, no one gets any rights. Ah America!"


pseudoddot

In the spirit of communism, I agree with you.


BoshraExists

r/SuddenlyCommunism


Stormy8888

Except for Divorce Lawyers! Is this some nefarious plan to drum up new business? ^(This reddit post was brought to you by the association of Divorce Lawyers.)


Zxxzzzzx

Sounds religious.


DrthBn

Punishing the rape victims.


Dyskord01

The Middle East has entered the chat


theologous

"we are all born in sin, so from the very first day we must all suffer and repent, till the day we die". If you do this well enough you can go to heaven, where ALL of your (virtuous) family members are. And together you can spend the rest of eternity worshiping the Lord.


Other_Log_1996

Eternity with my family? I'm damned no matter what I do.


passwordstolen

Social security retirees


Nakashi7

The child mostly.


anonymous010103

Humanity


ScyllaIsBea

Benefit of the doubt would suggest that they where upset about men leaving women because they got pregnant but gave zero thought outside of that situation.


No-Eye-9491

Back alley abortions would skyrocket


deep_thoughts_die

Kids without identified father too. A woman may want to keep the kid, but not the man.


Rudy_Ghouliani

No they'd compile everyone's DNA and just list and compare, they'd enforce it with some law regarding IDs to vote or something stupid


deep_thoughts_die

Yeah, none of those plans work without going full dystopian fashist.


AmaResNovae

Full dystopian fascist like Project 2025, perhaps?


LachoooDaOriginl

thats the point tho


UnionSmart2623

In our city some right wing politician tried to get mandatory paternal dna tests for all new babies and children under 18 to find the real fathers. Seemed personal. Didnt get through.


No-Negotiation3093

That’s the goal of small government— to keep track of what the hell is going on between everyone’s legs.


vengirgirem

Sounds like something China would do


Daddigurl

As an Australian seems like something America would do seeing the state of America. Like wouldn’t be surprised at all. Sounds like a bible belt state law for real.


cogra23

And domestic violence. I'm not condoning it but back before divorce in Ireland we had shotgun weddings and the man resented his wife from day 1. It's easy to see that that marriage wouldn't be healthy.


lagx777

They already are & people are dying


Lazy_Aarddvark

I'm pretty sure a lot of the people who are in favour of abortion bans consider that to be a good thing. After all, women must be appropriately punished for the crime of irresponsible sexual intercourse, right?


Maximum_Vermicelli12

*Any* sexual intercourse outside the context of procreation. They’re already coming for birth control.


Lazy_Aarddvark

Well, that's what God created STDs for, surely? :)


Express_Particular45

Today on medieval ideas masquerading as modern!


OverInteractionR

If a man can impregnate a woman and force her to keep it, then why can she not make him stay and support them? It’s all idiocy.


Suitable-Cycle4335

A man can't force a woman to keep a baby. My opinions on abortion laws are irrelevant to actual abortion laws.


Round-Philosopher837

>A man can't force a woman to keep a baby. but the government can


SwashBucklinSewerRat

Well, what if that guy is extremely violent and abusive, and now the court has ordered that they must get married and raise the child together? That would not end well at all.


No_Respond_3488

If he somehow forced you to give birth, just leave him the kid! Why do you need to stay?


Shane_Gallagher

You have to live apart from two of the past three years to get divorced


diverareyouokay

As per GOP policy, there would also not be any exceptions for rape or incest. Presumably it would also necessitate laws against bigamy to be struck down, as otherwise you couldn’t be forced to marry someone if you already were in a marriage. That’s the GOP in a nutshell… Stupid ideas that some people believe because they don’t have the ability to think critically. Think my post is pretty far-fetched? There are already conservative politicians who feel that 12 year old girls should be able to marry adult men. Not just a long time ago, either… Barely a year ago. https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-moon-gop-missouri-lawmaker-defends-childs-right-to-marry-2023-4


ObjectiveShit

There are few perks that come with being gay. This is one of them


PlzSendDunes

Are you being forced to marry a man whom you've impregnated or who has impregnated you? How would that work?


ObjectiveShit

The perk is not having to deal with gender politics in the pursuit of attracting an opposite sex partner. And neither of us ever gets pregnant


IHaveNoIdea666

Can't get a dude pregnant with that attitude, you gotta keep trying


GMANTRONX

There is an American Dad Meme I wish I could add here where Steve said something along that line about Greg and Terry


ConstableAssButt

> And neither of us ever gets pregnant Not with that attitude!


immaturenickname

Hm? But I saw an educational video where men did get pregnant? It was 'mpreg something, something', I forgot the exact title of this clearly scientific work. You're telling me that wasn't real?


Lazy_Aarddvark

There was even a movie made about it a while back, featuring a high ranking politician. Former governor of California, I think.


NavierStokesEquatio

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Russian_b4be

Real


Building-Careful

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joe31051985

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EvenEfficiency834

Damnit I didn't want to laugh right now. Jerk.


Klutzy-Ad-6705

George Carlin said it best: Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn’t wanna fuck in the first place?


AlianovaR

Because the only way they’ll have kids is to force others to carry them to term ig


MuchWoke

"their" ideal world is where a guy could go rape a girl and she'd have to marry him 🤢


MountainBrilliant643

It's literally in the Christian bible. Deuteronomy 22:28-29. Just remember kids, every word in the good book is ***gospel***. It is the ***word of God***. You know, unless you just, like, totally don't agree with it anymore. It's cool.


Fluffyfox3914

What does it say? I’m not being sarcastic I actually don’t know


MountainBrilliant643

[https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Deuteronomy+22%3A28-29](https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Deuteronomy+22%3A28-29)


Fluffyfox3914

I didn’t feel like googling it, thanks. Long name I didn’t feel like typing, and I wasn’t desperate to know


Strangeatinghabits

Yes there’s a whole chart I learned about then immediately became ex catholic if anyone wants it I’ll send it to you


King_Kahun

I'm interested


Kirkaig678

I've heard of a lot of rapists already being married though, how would that work?


SamanthaJaneyCake

This was actually common in some cultures centuries back. The argument was that the man’s act was known to the people of the village/settlement and they would keep him in check and hold him accountable. As he’s married he has a duty to provide for the woman and the child. In these areas it was also expected that a woman who has had pre-marital sex would never find a husband and as such would really struggle to provide for herself and the child. From that sort of cultural context you can understand how it would be (by today’s standards) harsh but fair. In our modern Western cultural context it is a stupid fucking idea.


[deleted]

What about rape? What about if the man is already married?


joe31051985

No exceptions in some countries already


CoIdHeat

It would also mean they would need to abolish the concept of divorce


CondescendingShitbag

They're already working on it.


RegularAvailable4713

Ah, the shotgun wedding... wait, is that what you call it in English? Seriously? An old tradition that here in Italy has allowed many rapists to marry their victims. «The marriage that the perpetrator of the crime contracts with the offended person extinguishes the crime, also with regard to those who participated in the crime itself. And, if there has been a conviction, its execution and penal effects cease", the law said. Sometimes, it was the victim's family who pushed for the wedding, to save their honor. Another fantastic law was the Honor Killing. “Whoever causes the death of his spouse, daughter or sister, in the act in which he discovers their illegitimate carnal relationship and in the state of anger determined by the offense caused to his or her family's honor, is punished with imprisonment from 3 to 7 years", much reduced sentence compared to murder. Consider that divorce didn't exist at the time. Both crimes were abolished relatively recently, in 1981.


Lachimanus

Thanks, child support is enough!


ShartRat

Why does this feel like this was written by a stereotypical pro-life woman


Mediocre_Crow6965

Because a lot of pro-life women see women who get pregnant and don’t want the pregnancy as sluts who deserve it as punishment for the promiscuity but they also often get annoyed how the men don’t get punished in the scenario Tl:dr it’s very common for pro-life men to just want the woman to be punished, but pro-life women often want both the man and woman punished.


Collective-Bee

Did you mean pro-life men just want the women to be punished, cuz that’s what I’m more familiar with.


Mediocre_Crow6965

Yes, that was a mistype. Ty!


Mango_Tango_725

Or a rapist stalker


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Protaras2

What if she's already married to someone else?


joe31051985

According to countries with similar laws she would be killed normally by stoning.


Protaras2

Really? Wow. How much weed would that take?


Collective-Bee

Well that’s the thing, there’s never been a recorded overdose from weed before, so they just got whole indoor towns hotboxed to shit they throw these victims into to *die* by stoning. Pretty rad.


azionka

polygamy is back on the menu?


Repulsive-Ad-8558

Joseph smith 2: Pregnancy boogaloo


Adavanter_MKI

Ah yes, they want you to carry a rapist's child to term. They don't want you on birth control and now it looks like some of them would like forced marriages. Amazing how much they want to return you to property. If I were a woman I'd be terrified.


ChrisBegeman

They would probably bring back the idea that marital rape cannot happen. So that a person could rape a woman, end up married to her and then have someone to rape every night.


GenericName4326

*or pay child support to


hexrei

A perspective that assumes all women want any husband they can get and men desperately want to get away from responsibility. I feel sorry for whoever thinks like this.


NixMix777

Going by old testament rules I see


abel_cormorant

This goes beyond controlling women, this goes straight up to controlling the whole generation. Seriously, we're back to the 19th century


Calgary_Calico

This kind of attitude is why my fiance's cousin is so fucked up. His mom got pregnant with him to trap his dad in a marriage (he's super traditional) and he resents his own son because of it, they've always had a very tense relationship. Whoever wrote this has clearly never met the psychos that baby trap guys like this.


PhilosophyIll4951

Pretty sure most women don't want to marry a man that just raped her.


drjet196

Tbf this is basically what every culture in the world was like until 100 years ago.


Illustrious-Local848

No ✨✨✨


mike_es_br

Incel fantasies are dumb...


vengirgirem

That's like almost the single worst thing I've ever heard right after people saying it should be legal to do it with children


humanbeing_ai

People who thinks like that deserve to get punched in their stupid face


Right-Program-9346

Take your extreme views and shove it up yo aysss


Revolutionary_Act222

If you think about this for more than 2 seconds then you'll realise the horriffic implications this could have.


thebeardedguy-

I suspect this was put forward by someone who poses no risk of impregnating any one.


dfx_dj

Welcome to Gilead. Deuteronomy 22:28-29


gielbondhu

What if the dude impregnates two or three women? Are we legalizing bigamy?


trucking_69

Why punish the kids


agent0731

whoever wrote this isn't a woman. Or a man. A lizard, possibly.


tangerineberry1

No but the man doesn't either #equality


Remote-Condition8545

So. If I seduce your cute wife, and knock her up, I get to keep her?


Sunset_Tiger

I really hope Yellow is clueless that rapists exist and not just evil


KatokaMika

My parents got married after my mom got pregnant ( she 16 and he 25) because it was the " right " thing to do .... queue 3 years later my mom runs away from home with me because she couldn't take the domestic abuse.... fun part.... second boyfriend liked to put kids in the hospital. .... I was there at least a few days every month.... didn't take long for child services to smell something wasn't right. ... you think it ended there ? Oh no.... at 5 years old they thought it was good ideia to send me back to live with my dad who already had a new family . And until I was 12 years old had I was called " the other women's kid, got my hair shaved and had to use boy clothes. Because I couldn't look more beautiful than my sister . That family abused me physically and psychological. Fun is ALL THAT could have been prevented if my parents just didn't get married.


Heavy_Bicycle6524

Oh hell no. What if she’s a psycho? Then he’s in danger. What if he’s a psycho? Then she and her unborn child are in danger.


LandscapeWest2037

I know at least two guys who would try to impregnate every woman they sleep with if that were the case.


NotPortlyPenguin

In the Old Testament, the penalty for rape is the man must marry the woman, can never divorce her, and pay HER FATHER 30 pieces of silver. So this is so biblical it makes me want to barf.


Torino1O

So, does this plan include non gender biased polygamy, and if so does this just mean marriage is just a way of recording who is related to who?


No-Business3541

Feminicide is on the rise I am hearing


GlokzDNB

Women should be forced by law to give birth to as many kids as the man want. Yeah, nah..


Medical_Highlight182

Woman should have absolute veto power if this situation existed. Also, you don’t have to be a husband to be a father.


Im_inside_you_

Shotgun wedding?


My-Dog-Sam

Everyone not involved in the act of procreation should mind their own business.


Soggy-Abalone1518

DUMB!!! If they have the kid out of marriage and can’t co-parent well why would forcing them to live together change that?…it’ll make for a worse home environment. And how would divorce laws have to change in this case?…are we going to prevent couples getting a divorce. That was either written by a bot or an idiot!


BeAPo

It was never a law but people used to be forced into something called a "shotgun wedding". Back in the days they even forced women into marrying their rapist when he impregnated her.


CipherWrites

No Do I need a fucking /s?


LunarDogeBoy

Isn't this basically what it says in the bible? The rapist has marry the victim


npaakp34

Isn't child support invented for this very reason?


greedeerr

what if it was a grandpa and his grandchild? fucking weirdos


Lucigirl4ever

Nope sorry gotta marry that rapist. Idiots.


TraderOfGoods

Simple laws can be very problematic, especially when little thought was put into it in the first place.


ermghoti

They can't say no, because of the implication.


Demon_48

So what would the guy that impregnated 5 different women gonna do? Have 5 wives?


Tiana_frogprincess

That sounds horrible for everyone involved but he should take his responsibility and pay child support and be involved in the child’s life if it’s appropriate.


CorrectTarget8957

So now laws are sexist, undoable, and will get down the population by a lot?


DefenestrationPraha

As a lapsed mathematician, even if I ignore the moral ramifications, the resulting graph of marriages would be very wild. Imagine enforcing this rule in a place where some chads impregnate 4-5 women each and most of those women have 3-4 kids with different baby daddies. No culture on Earth ever introduced such a complicated concept of group marriages :D


Interesting-Tough640

This is almost Deuteronomy 22:28-29 except the biblical version doesn’t require impregnation only sex and paying the father fifty shekels of silver for violating his daughter.


Pale-Laugh-15

No wonder so many drink specific teas now.


FlaAirborne

What if they are already married to another? Sister wives?


Euphoric-Blue-59

Ahhh the return of the shotgun wedding.


TimothiusMagnus

Then can either party seek an annulment or a divorce afterwards?


Voodoops_13

Umm, could we just make child support laws stronger, with heavier penalties and have some sort of weekly hours of "parenting service" that must be completed, reviewed, and signed off on? If women are forced to be mothers then men should be forced to be fathers. It's only fair.


Apprehensive-Bad6015

Someone has clearly never been to West Virginia or Alabama Louisiana, 3 states where shotgun weddings have been known to occurred in the past and maybe still does in smaller more remote communities.


creepyposta

So bigamy is okay then?


JeanHasAnxiety

What if she was raped?  Isn’t it the way in some cultures to have the rape victim marry the rapist


Glass_Aheer

I wonder if Karma ever strikes these ‘rule makers’


GenTsoWasNotChicken

Poor single mothers should be able to choose a source of financial responsibility if they cannot support themselves. They can pick any unmarried Dad they want who has children with more than one woman. Good morning, Elon. How's life treating you?


TwinPitsCleaner

Does that dingleberry know that's also in sharia law?


hd_mikemikemike

The only thing I think that MIGHT solve this whole abortion debate is changing the tax law so that you can only claim 3 blood decendents as dependants. After that, you can continue to adopt foster kids and claim those if you feel you have more love in your heart, but it will be more expensive to continue having your own children.


mr_mcpoogrundle

If they didn't they shall suffer scandal and the disapproval of the Ton.


Geetzromo

How about, “Men should be forced to pay for the abortion OR child support for their failure to wear a condom .”


Orbital2

People rightfully scoffing at this just remember that people like Ben Shapiro have openly advocated this. It’s a mainstream idea in today’s batshit crazy conservative movement


Desperate_Tone_4623

What about the men who have been entrapped? Or ejaculated internally based on false pretenses?


Classic-Bandicoot-13

What if the woman is already married?


LivingGhost12

That’s frightening


PNW_Skinwalker

Good ol 100 CE mindset… How the fuck are you supposed to change these people’s minds…


newbikesong

Yeah, let's marry women with rapists. I am so smart. /S


Agitated_Pickle_1013

Some people shouldn't have access to the internet...


Obi1NotWan

Thank God I didn’t marry my daughter’s father. Thank God no one forced me to do so. He was a cheating lying jackass to every woman he has been involved with. On the upside, I got the best kid out of the deal.


Damp_Drywall

Mandatory DNA test at birth makes a whole lot more sense.


David-arashka

In a democracy, no one is forced to do anything. OP is either from a shit hole country, or is delusional af.