I believe you ' re being dishonest in your arguments . Dishonest isn ' t the right word , but I can ' t think of the right one atm . That ' s because you ' ve built your premise into some sort of axiom that you ' re unwilling to reconsider . So instead of addressing the argument , you ' d rather discard it as dishonest . But that ' s a dishonest argument , and I still think it violates his bodily autonomy . That ' s where your argument crumbles . Bodily autonomy encompass one ' s body , its components and its various functions . None of these are targeted by a court order forcing someone ' s to pay any amount of money . Even if , for the sake of argument , we were to extend the concept so much that things two or three steps removed from the original definition are included , we ' d still have to admit that child support and pregnancy aren ' t equivalent situations . One affects bodily autonomy indirectly by forcing someone to surrender a part of the resources he gathers . The other affect the body directly by forcing an unwilling party to use it in a particular way . These are distinct situations , which obviously allows for distinct legal treatment .