Who should he held responsible for a pregnancy.

[Koldo]

As it shouldn't. Post hoc ergo propter hoc is usually false. It doesn't follow that having sex and getting pregnant means you are legally or morally obligated to continue that pregnancy.

Sure, I meant that is of little consequence in practice.
For instance, a parent can't excuse himself from paying alimony just because 'it doesn't follow that having sex and getting pregnant means you are legally or morally obligated' to do it.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

Sure, I meant that is of little consequence in practice.
For instance, a parent can't excuse himself from paying alimony just because 'it doesn't follow that having sex and getting pregnant means you are legally or morally obligated' to do it.

Exactly. If you want to argue the necessity of alimony you need to do it on the relative merit of alimony, not on 'someone got pregnant therefore someone else is obligated to alimony' which would be an incredibly weak 'does not follow' argument.

Incidentally I'm against alimony and child care payments in favor of broader child care government aid programs that don't have any danger of 'dead beats' and also don't nurse sexist ideals in court proceedings based on gender roles.
But that's another thread.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri:
that while he was sitting with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) he said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! We get female captives as our share of booty, and we are interested in their prices, what is your opinion about coitus interruptus?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Do you really do that? It is better for you not to do it. No soul that which Allah has destined to exist, but will surely come into existence".
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[9-10ths_Penguin]

These are two different matters to me.
Understanding and accepting that having sex can result in pregnancy even if you're using protection and considering what you will do in the case you become pregnant is good.

Understanding that accessibility to contraception reduces unwanted pregnancy and 'abstinence only' education creates regions with higher sti, unwanted pregnancy, crime and poverty simply because they refuse to accept the importance of sex in human psychology is also important.

Sure... the type of responsibility is different. Those more distant actors generally realized - or ought to have realized - that uncaused pregnancies would result from their actions, but maybe couldn't have predicted any one specific pregnancy and the two specific people involved.

I still see that as a type of responsibility, though.