I may be out of touch but I have a hard time believing that a significant percentage of unwanted pregnancies are because they didn't know about or couldn't get bc. I prefer not to elaborate.
I don't know what to make of your suggestion to criminalize the men. 1) Who says he doesn't want the pregnancy? Under current law, he doesn't have a say. 2) Why is he more responsible than her, barring instances of rape?
3) How could such a law be enforceable? He'll claim he wanted it at the time but now changed his mind. Are you going to criminalize changing of mind?
Also, from a morality point of view, abortion is ok, but pregnancy is criminal? Absurd.
I don't know what you mean by your last line but it's clear and it's been the stated goal of these laws to provoke a SCOTUS challenge to Roe.
You are out of touch. I'm not being facetious. How easy do you think it is for a 14 year old in backwater Alabama and has been preached to about abstinence only to get accurate information regarding her cycle, when she can actually get pregnant, how condoms prevent STD and STI and fully understand the ramifications. Or worry that the one pharmacist in town is going to tell her parents that she got birth control or condoms. It is not always easy.
As to criminalizing pregnancy - regardless of whether a man wants the pregnancy or not, if he impregnated a woman who doesn't want a pregnancy it would be an involuntary pregnancy kind of like involuntary manslaughter. Maybe a man who causes 2 unwanted pregnancies should be required to have a vasectomy? She is already held responsible by now being forced to carry the pregnancy. He should be equally responsible in some way no? That definitely includes financially but also in a meaningful legal way. I'm not really serious with thinking this, I just think men don't truly understand the scope of what is being forced on women here. It is way more invasive than forcing a vasectomy.
I also want to point out that rape is hard to prove but involuntary pregnancy is much easier to prove. I know aygart was being facetious but clearly condoms and rape being illegal isn't stopping the problem.