...do men even get interviewed on abortion rights stories.......ever? As far as conception goes, we're on the outside except for a tablespoon of proteins. Last time I checked, my wife's body carried the baby. Why do men even have a say in what happens in a woman's body. It seems a sad Stepford holdover.
I was listening to the jeebus lovers on NPR this morning in a story about a proposed ban (again) on abortion in that state. The anti-Roe crowd is hoping to take advantage of conservative sheep types in the rural dakotas to wedge this in and send a legal challenge to the supreme court (thanks mom and dad for voting McCain/Palin). Hopefully Obama will win and keep the court from getting red staters to fill the retiring spots coming up on the court. They'd probably have better luck passing something like this in the lobbyist run state of Mississippi, but I'm sure that there are plenty of 1950s-60s abortions hanging around in the society closets down there.
I told my mom that if some day, CP walks into a drug store and can't get a morning after pill or contraception because the jeebus loving objector behind the counter won't give it to her, I'd have CP call her and thank her for voting with her racist repugnantcan roots when she had a real choice to make.
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I was talking to a co-worker the other day about the same thing. He didn't understand it either. My theory is that the men who are anti-abortion are even more vocal than the anti-abortion women, so the media latches onto them for a louder, fiercer story. My other theory is that it very well may be a primal thing that the anti-abortion men are feeling, some deep seated fear that some woman (their mom?) could have had the power to stop their life before they were born. They don't want women to have the power over death because women already have the power to produce life. Men typically are more violent, they are the ones who claim the power to produce death. This primal thing in the men has some connection to the drive to make sure your genes get carried on. Unfortunately it doesn't always translate into demonstrating responsiblity for raising, nurturing and protecting said offspring. Biological imperatives seem an end in itself. Now if they would be as passionate about head-start, children's health-care, strong schools, proper nutrition, and child safety, then things just might begin to be balanced.
I'm pretty passionate about all of those things in the last line, but I also think that there is a lot of ingrained paternalism that comes from the oldest paternal con/control game going....religion.
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