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I’ve always been pro choice. After all, I’m a man and this is a women’s issue. It’s very easy to be neutral when there’s little chance of being personally affected and you don’t spend much thinking thinking about the details.

I understand people’s religious and moral objections and never really bought into the idea that it was about men wanting to control women’s bodies.

Watching the reaction to the Dobbs decision has given me a new perspective on this debate. The politicians who want to jail doctors and woman. The women being forced to maintain ectopic pregnancies because a fetal heartbeat has been detected, being forced to carry babies to term despite the danger to their own lives. The legal danger now faced by women who miscarry. The efforts to prevent women from crossing state lines or even read about abortion on the internet have shown me that this is about a lot more than reproductive rights. There is clearly an element within this movement that wants to control women’s lives.

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