TheLos Angeles Times reported on the growing tactic by the anti-choice movement to attempt to sway public opinion by hearing Men's personal tales of horror of abortions they had.
Wing nuts have such a problem with science that, according to them, Men are now getting pregnant, and gasp, some of them are having abortions!
IMO this trivializes the dilemna that women must go through before deciding on whether or not to have an abortion. Changing the terms to elicit support for your cause doesn't overturn a law (not a theory) of nature: men can't get pregnant.
What gauls me the most about this tactic is that the Supreme Court basically upheld partial-birth abortion laws based on the pseudo-scientific testimony of women claiming to have Post Abortive syndrome.
You see the trauma and angush that women who must cross a gauntlet of holier than thou people isn't important. You see they don't suffer, only the father's of the aborted fetus have any kind of trauma and regret.
There is no end to the shameless tactics as the internets are now ripe for solicitation.
The Justice Foundation recently began soliciting affidavits from men; one online link promises, "Your story will help legal efforts to end abortion." Silent No More encourages men to testify at rallies.
IMO, this is nothing more than a diagnosis, made by a pseuodo-doctor, looking for symptoms that match much like the bogus Restless Leg Syndrome (something that probably is legitimate for less than 0.1% of all those "diagnosed."
Therapist Vincent M. Rue, who helped develop the concept of postabortion trauma, runs an online study that asks men to check off symptoms (such as irritability, insomnia, and impotence) that they feel they have suffered as a result of an abortion. When men are widely recognized as victims, Rue said, "that will change society."
Indeed he may be correct. Currentt reproductive rights supporters are watching this latest mobilization warily:
If anecdotes from grieving women can move the Supreme Court, what will testimony about men's pain accomplish?asked reporter Stephanie Simon.
"They can potentially shift the entire debate," said Marjorie Signer of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, an interfaith group that supports abortion rights.
Using pseudo-science is a wing nut tactic. Irony aside that this is a group that views science as an instrument of Satan and does not believe in Darwinism. The stupidity of this position really suggests that one hit of RepubliCrack TM is so powerful that it turns you into a vapid idiot that believes men can have babies...at least not all the uncomfortable shit like hemoroids, constant peeing, back pain, mood swings, etc, but only lament a decision after the fact is like buyer's or non-buyer's remorse.
The concept of postabortion trauma is disputed. Several studies published in peer-reviewed medical journals suggest that women who have had abortions are more prone to depression or drug abuse. But the research does not prove cause and effect, Stotland said.
It might be, she said, that women who have abortions are more emotionally unstable in the first place. Abortion is one of the most common surgeries in the country, with more than 1 million performed a year; while some who chose the procedure surely come to regret it, doctors say they see no epidemic of trauma in either men or women.
Wing nuts won't let scientific facts get in the way of manipulating public opinion by relying on sob stories..
The activists leading the men's movement make clear they're not relying on statistics to make their case. They're counting on the power of men's tears.
"The lived truth of peoples' experience is very hard to dismiss," said Vicki Thorn, who runs postabortion counseling programs for the Catholic Church. "It's time we . . . affirm the pain that fathers feel."
Once again, the wing nuts love the fetus, hate the baby. They love the man who impregnates a woman, but somehow she's a tramp for getting knocked up. Then again, the wing nuts don't even want women to have birth control so that people stop having sex as if that is going to happen.
Yet, somehow the men who IMO have the most responsibility in preventing an unplanned pregnancy because they should take the responsibility to use a condom. Then again, the moralists have demonized the reliable condom so that these idiot men think they are the birth control equivilent of a 1975 Ford Pinto.
Women can have spontaneous pregnancies without a man. However, that results in only female fetuses (someone smarter than me can exlain).
You would think with child support, DNA testing, and paternity suits that condoms would be ubiquitious in male wallets like they once were to the point that men's wallets always had that tell-tale ring where you stored your trusty Trojan.
It seems some of these "dads" who never "put a sock on it" (sorry Dean Wormer) are having regrets over a decision that they failed to take personal responsiblity for in the past.
Mark Morrow described his regret as sneaking up on him in midlife - more than a decade after he impregnated three girlfriends (one of them twice) in succession in the late 1980s. All four pregnancies ended in abortion.
Years later, when his wife told him she was pregnant, "I suddenly realized that I had four dead children," said Morrow, 47, who lives near Erie, Pa. "I hadn't given it a thought. Now it all came crashing down on me - look what you've done."
A few months ago, Morrow reached out to the former girlfriend who aborted twice. They met and prayed together, seeking peace. After they parted, she spilled her anger in a letter: "That long day we sat in that God-forsaken clinic, I hoped every moment that you would stand up and say, 'We can't do this' . . . but you didn't."