In light of the continued assault on women’s rights to abortion, exemplified by the attack on the Colorado Springs Clinic, which appears to be motivated by the edited videos Carly Fiorina and her ilk peddled, I feel obliged to siccinctly and bluntly articulate why abortion rights are pertinent to both sexes.
The fundamental American right to abortion, enshrined in the constitutional right to privacy, is oft discussed as a “womens’ rights” or “womens’ health” issue. It absolutely is, especially because the woman does hold the baby in her body for almost a year (and the woman always should have the final say), but there’s a little discussed angle of this issue that is important. That angle is that it is also a “man’s rights” issue.
Here’s how:
A guy and a girl are in a sexually active relationship. (either romantic or FWB type, it really doesn’t matter except to the “abstinence only” crowd) The man either uses a condom to prevent sperm from entering and impregnating the woman, the man “raw dogs” it because he knows the woman’s cycle and its more pleasurable and the woman is OK with this, or the woman uses contraceptive pills/injection (a remedy to unwanted impregnation that usually works-90% success isn’t 100%). The condom breaks or is defective thru no fault of the man or woman, perhaps the woman’s egg cycle wasn’t as well known despite best efforts to make it so, or the contraceptive pill/injection just thru bad luck, failed that one time. Both the man and the woman do not seek to have a baby at that moment, for either reasons of not being economically and professionally able to devote resources to properly and effectively raising a child, perhaps neither one of them is emotionally ready, or perhaps neither wants to ever have children. The woman, but also the man can feel these ways.
By restricting the right of a woman to have an abortion, the government would not just be restricting the right of the woman to decide on the factors in the paragraph above, but it would be telling a person who is every bit as much of the parent as the woman (hence the child support and custody laws), the male “Big Brother government doesn’t care if you don’t want to have a kid now, you must.” The male must imminently (9 months isn’t that long) become a father and must give up his right to decide on his economic, professional, and emotion future.
After all, it takes two to tango, both to fertilize an egg and to raise a child. Therefore, abortion is a rights issue for both of the tangoers.
Sunday, Nov 29, 2015 · 2:30:54 PM +00:00 · DerekJack30
Disclaimer:
(the point is that if the woman wants to have an abortion but her right is being denied, and the man also wants her to, he also has a right that is being denied and a stake in it. I wrote this in the hopes that people could tweet this, share it, you name it, to further spread why abortion rights are to forever be defended and watched by voters of both sexes, especially as talking points to people who might be vulnerable to conservative attempts at persuasion, examples being socially-liberal-on-premarital-sex/drugs high school jocks, fratty bros who wear Reagan shirts, libertarian types, etc.)