| Film Details | 23 - Reproductive Rights - 39m 18s |
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| Age Rating | 15 (strong footage/language, possibly including violence and sexual imagery) |
| Synopsis | Outlines some radical ideas concerning responsibility for pregnancy and childbirth and the lack of options and rights open to men with respect to controlling their fertility. Looks at how the lack of choice available to men leads to family breakdown. • Women and the contraceptive pill • Male pill and it’s impact on men’s rights • Fathers duped into fatherhood • Women turning “Casual sex into Cashflow sex” (Amy Alkon) • Single mothers and choices |
| Interviewees | Angry Harry, Psychologist and Men’s Rights activist, angryharry.com. Simon, Psychologist and Writer. Erin Pizzey, Author and Domestic Violence expert. Opened the world’s first domestic violence shelter in London and is a patron of the Mankind Initiative Men’s Charity. Author of the book “Prone to Violence”. [identity protected] Fireman, London Fire Brigade. This man’s identity has been disguised in order to protect him from sanction by his employer for speaking the truth about Fire Brigade policy with respect to equal opportunities. Oliver Curry, Evolutionary Psychologist at the London School of Economics and contributing author to Demos, the independent think tank and research institute. Andrew, IT Engineer and footballer. Daniel Monk, Law Lecturer at Birkbeck University, London, and a specialist in Family law. Dr S. Deo, General Practitioner, Haringey NHS. All interviews recorded in 2004 |
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I believe that a man should only be forced to pay child support if he was married to the mother when the baby was conceived. The only exemption from this would be in the event of a proven case of paternity fraud.
In principle, what you say makes sense, except marriage is not a fair contract for a man in current times. Married or not, if a man does not expressly decide to have children, he is enslaved.
“For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.” — Pfeiffer’s Law
A corollary of this is that the herb existed for thousands of years before the drug was invented.
So where is this male contraceptive herb?
In india. Its called neem.
I haven’t reaserched it much yet, but I intend to soon.
The laws of unintended consequences come into play vividly here.