This is all about men's control over women, IMO.
If a majority of the lawmakers in this country were women, and if so many men in this country weren't so chauvinistic and self-righteous, this wouldn't even be an issue.
But since the majority of lawmakers are men, and since so many men are chauvinistic and self-righteous, it is.
I'd like to know if all of you men who are anti-abortion would feel the same way if you were a woman, impregnated against her will, or having to fear worrying about supporting a child for the next 20 years or more with no help from the father, or caught up in a any number of other unfortunate scenarios, would feel the same way.
You know what?
You don't or can't possibly know how you would feel unless you were in that situation, can you?
You may think you know, but how can you be sure?
You certainly would like to believe that you'd still be against abortion for the same self-righteous reasons, but I'd like to know how you can be so sure you would when faced with the prospect of giving birth to an unwanted child.
It's real easy for a man to be anti-abortion.
After all, what do men have to worry about?
Get it hard, stick it in, ejaculate, impregnate a woman, and walk away from the whole thing if you like.
You don't have to change your life of turn it upside down one iota if you help cause an unwanted pregnancy, do you fellas?
Meanwhile, let's lay all the responsibility for birth control, pregnancy, pre- and post-natal care, financial expense, and everything else on the woman.
Come back, men, and tell me how you're still anti-abortion when you've been raped or are pregnant by your parent or a partner/lover who has disappeared, or have to go through an unwanted pregnancy for 9 months and turn your life upside down.
Yeah, actions have consequences, but if the consequences in this case were the same for the man as they are for the woman, abortion would be a given and we wouldn't even be talking about it.
I will accord a great deal of respect to the views of a woman who is anti-abortion, though.
Even though I disagree with her views, at least she is making a decision to be against something that she can suffer the direct consequences of her being against.
You gotta at least respect that.
But men who are anti-abortion?
Pffft....(Am I spelling that right?)
