Abortion rights should be a LOT bigger deal than it seems to be. As I've often heard it put, abortion rights are women's rights. When your non-citizen fetus has more rights than you do, you're a second-class citizen. Whenever I hear a man opining about the subject, my glare comes out. Men, it's none of your business unless you're the doc…
Abortion rights should be a LOT bigger deal than it seems to be. As I've often heard it put, abortion rights are women's rights. When your non-citizen fetus has more rights than you do, you're a second-class citizen. Whenever I hear a man opining about the subject, my glare comes out. Men, it's none of your business unless you're the doctor. I know a man who claims to be pro-choice, but the other day he was reading about how many abortions there were and he's talking about Clinton's 'safe, legal and rare' and there are too many for it to be rare. But the numbers don't matter. In the end, it is one woman making a decision about her own body and all women should want to defend that right.
[Whenever I hear a man opining about the subject, my glare comes out. Men, it's none of your business unless you're the doctor.]
I have a wife and a daughter and I want them to have full rights like they used to (and more, actually) as well as full medical care options in the event of complications (my wife needed that twice). I certainly defer to women as having primacy on the issue, but I can't go along with it being none of my business. I get that its a woman's rights issue, but it is also a human rights issue.
I respond not because I need to have my [very important male /s] opinion heard, but because I don't think that telling anyone, especially those we disagree with, that they don't get to have an opinion is a good way of convincing people. You know the guy you mention, but his position sounds like one where some more education and reflection on the subject could help. One aspect would be in examining the numbers he is using. I hear you that they don't matter to you and you believe they shouldn't matter (and I agree!), but this voter in question isn't convinced. Can he be?
I hope you do more than glare. Women and men, but especially women, need to speak firmly and directly about how anti-abortion laws are discriminatory, repressive, and an abuse of male power. Why is it that it takes men to make babies but yet they have no responsibility after that? Why does a clump of cells, which may or may to have potential, have more rights than the person who is already alive and fully formed? How does the state have the right to rule women but not men? Maybe men should need signed permissions to have sex. Then they would know they have responsibilities. That way, if they want the pregnancy to go full term they must agree to raise the child. If not, it becomes the woman’s decision.
For much of my life woman were a secondary consideration at best. They were expected to submit to the needs of others and sacrifice for the family. Many women today continue to discount women.
Abortion rights should be a LOT bigger deal than it seems to be. As I've often heard it put, abortion rights are women's rights. When your non-citizen fetus has more rights than you do, you're a second-class citizen. Whenever I hear a man opining about the subject, my glare comes out. Men, it's none of your business unless you're the doctor. I know a man who claims to be pro-choice, but the other day he was reading about how many abortions there were and he's talking about Clinton's 'safe, legal and rare' and there are too many for it to be rare. But the numbers don't matter. In the end, it is one woman making a decision about her own body and all women should want to defend that right.
[Whenever I hear a man opining about the subject, my glare comes out. Men, it's none of your business unless you're the doctor.]
I have a wife and a daughter and I want them to have full rights like they used to (and more, actually) as well as full medical care options in the event of complications (my wife needed that twice). I certainly defer to women as having primacy on the issue, but I can't go along with it being none of my business. I get that its a woman's rights issue, but it is also a human rights issue.
I respond not because I need to have my [very important male /s] opinion heard, but because I don't think that telling anyone, especially those we disagree with, that they don't get to have an opinion is a good way of convincing people. You know the guy you mention, but his position sounds like one where some more education and reflection on the subject could help. One aspect would be in examining the numbers he is using. I hear you that they don't matter to you and you believe they shouldn't matter (and I agree!), but this voter in question isn't convinced. Can he be?
I hope you do more than glare. Women and men, but especially women, need to speak firmly and directly about how anti-abortion laws are discriminatory, repressive, and an abuse of male power. Why is it that it takes men to make babies but yet they have no responsibility after that? Why does a clump of cells, which may or may to have potential, have more rights than the person who is already alive and fully formed? How does the state have the right to rule women but not men? Maybe men should need signed permissions to have sex. Then they would know they have responsibilities. That way, if they want the pregnancy to go full term they must agree to raise the child. If not, it becomes the woman’s decision.
For much of my life woman were a secondary consideration at best. They were expected to submit to the needs of others and sacrifice for the family. Many women today continue to discount women.