I definitely agree with the general notion here that there is responsibility from both parents with a child regardless of an intended birth or not.

I want to point out also that the statement "Isn't 'his ex-girlfriend's daughter' also his daughter?" is a two-way street.

There is almost always a assumption that the man involved doesn't care or doesn't want the child. Yet, what happens when the man DOES want the child and the woman does not.

Regardless of who has to carry and birth the child, in that case, one can easily substitute, "Isn't 'her ex-boyfriend's daughter' also her daughter?"

"I feel for men who become unintentional fathers or whose partners chose abortion over their objections. Among the many reasons I'm glad I'm a woman is the control I have, and fiercely exercise, over my reproductive life. Still, my concern for unwilling fathers is levened by the fact that they could have put as much energy into getting a condom and some foam involved as they do their penises. If you can't pull off the former, but can the latter, go into it knowing you're playing Russian Roulette."

There is that, but lets not forget that courts impose child support because they are acting in the best interests of the children. It is hugely unfair of men that a woman can lie and become pregnant with a man's child, and it makes no difference that a man could just as easily have worn a condom when a woman induces him to father a child by deception. There is no excuse for that behavior from a woman. It's grossly unfair. That being said, all of that is completely and utterly irrelevant to the child who was brought into the world as a result of deception. The father must care for this child, whether he intended to have it or not.

"it's also indefensible to make women solely responsible for birth control and the support of child, however planned or unplanned"

Having heard the full backstory on this case when the plaintiff first filed it I have to say that this is an issue of taking responsibility for birth control is not addressing what his complaint was. He was told specifically by the woman she could not have kids, was physically unable to, and there was no need for birth control.