(British) Men have a responsibility for abortions, too

[ismnotwasm]

A very interesting OP.



http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/336851_abortiononline26.html

"Women -- I mean, what are we like? Having abortions for totally trivial reasons, like not wanting to be pregnant! You'd think by now we'd have got it into our heads that abortions are only for women who really deserve them, which basically means anyone who has been raped (though not according to the Vatican) or can show that they're really, really upset.

Of course, if they are really upset about the prospect of an abortion, they shouldn't be having one anyway, which reduces the number of deserving cases even further. If they're not, let's force them to have a "cooling off" period in which anti-abortion campaigners can flourish lurid pictures of aborted fetuses and tell them abortion gives you breast cancer.

One way or another, that should bring the figures closer to what "pro-life" campaigners and their shock troops really want, which is an end to legal abortion in this country. They know they won't get it; public support for the 1967 Abortion Act has been strong and consistent, and no politician of any persuasion believes there is a realistic chance of overturning it at present.

I often think, in fact, that the sensationalist tactics adopted by anti-abortionists are evidence of the bind they find themselves in: For several years now, they've focused on a small number of late abortions (about 1.5 per cent of the total) that take place at 20 weeks or above, using it as wedge in the long-term project of eventually dismantling the Abortion Act altogether."

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. If they are anything like the anti-choicers in the U.S., they want to ban contraception too

Did you catch the one response that said men should practice abstinence until they are ready to 'procreate' in marriage? The OP is spot on; these people hate women and they hate sex. Even marriage doesn't give you license to enjoy it without consequence. You are only to do it for teh baybeez. Yeesh.

[bliss_eternal]

2. So unrealistic and judgemental.

Doesn't anyone have anything better to do than to obsess over other's sex lives??
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