I prefer to recognize that Adam had good taste and found a good woman who we all recognize as Eve.

Well what about his first wife, Lilith? Oh, right, we demonize her and call her evil today because she refused to be subservient to Adam. To which I ask (rhetorically of course) if women are meant to be subservient to men (as we assume Eve was to Adam, as she was acceptable where Lilith was not) why did God initially create equal beings of different gender? If God intended Lilith to submit to Adam, why did he create her with equal intelligence and demanding of equal rights?

It's a shame that men do not have more say in whether a woman they have impregnated gets an abortion. It's terribly sad when a man is either morally opposed to an abortion or desperately wants the child and the woman decides to abort.

It seems like you are trying to make things equal, but they inherently are not based on physiology (who carries the child).

There's a third option. The simplest solution to this problem is to not insert your penis and genetic material into women with whom you have NOT discussed your wish to have children and come to a consensus in advance. If you have not done this I have zero sympathy for you. A) have the conversation, B) wear a condom and C) if you don’t agree/that woman doesn’t want kids and you do, go have sex with someone else. Or don't have sex at all. It’s… really not that difficult, actually. If you think with your big head.

I’m not saying women should abort your kids without telling you, I’m just saying as sexually liberated free thinking men, you have options.

Also, when are “condoms not an option”? I agree it would be great if there were a male pill, but… there are latex-free condoms for those with latex allergy. Beyond that, “but it’s like showering in a raincoat!” is not actually a disability preventing their use.

As for religious arguments for anti-abortion and criminalization of sex outside marriage laws... If our government gets to regulate what I do or don’t do with my body according to YOUR religious beliefs, then I’d like our government to regulate YOUR beliefs according to MY choice. You can only be whatever religion *I* say, including how you live and speak, what you eat, who you can marry and how and what you name your children. I mean, if that's how we're going to structure our society - have the wishes and beliefs of one group confer codes of behavior onto the masses - then I have just as much right to control your life via the government as you do to control mine... right? Or do you think our government should have more authority over our physical bodies and organs than it does over the practice of religion?