"Stand down if you don't have ovaries!" was the rallying cry of Representative Janet
Long of Tampa in denouncing a bill being debated in the FL legislature requiring pregnant woman to obtain an ultrasound before an abortion...... This caused abortion proponent Jacob M. Appel to write a post on the Huffington Post lamenting her point of view. He thinks this line of thinking is not only flawed but politically unwise and only helps the opposition.
Some interesting excerpts from Appel.....
"Increasingly, pro-choice activists are noting the political downside of relegating men to second-class status in abortion discourse. As Amanda Marcotte, a Pandragon.net blogger, recently told Newsweek: "When the anti-choice side pulls energy from both men and women who are eager to halt sexual liberation and control female bodies, and pro-choicers can only look to women, we're already running at half capacity."
Appel further states " the frequent claim that it's sexist to pay for ED drugs, but not pregnancy termination, or even women's contraceptives, is so deeply illogical and philosophically simplistic that it actually adds to the challenge of making the case for public funding."
Exactly and it pits women against men instead of being allies with them and makes the women look like whiners.....
"Pro-choice men have been effectively neutered by the feminists. Now that they've created an army of lap dogs, they decide that they really want attack dogs.It's easier being a pro-life male. We get to be and act like men ought. And we get great women who aren't at war with their own nature, which means they aren't at war with the men who complement that nature and whose nature is complemented by women's.Maybe left-leaning guys are waking up."
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Oh Gerard, that takes the cake " we get to act as men ought"! How exactly is it that men " ought to act"? And who defines that? Your bible? ( operative word there is your btw) Nature? Well, nature tells my pro choice husband that sex feels good so have some. It also tells him to love and care for his children. It also tells my gay brother that sex feels good so let's have some.
So where are all the pro choice men? Probably same place as all the pro choice women: largely content with the status quo and see no need for activism.
There is one class of men that pro-abort feminists have never told to mind their own business on the issue of whether a woman aborts or not. That is the one who wants his girlfriend or wife to abort, and who will use threats and violence if she resists his coercion. The pro-abort feminists are very silent on that; except when someone tries to pass laws protecting women from coercion, threats, or violence to force her to abort. Then the so-called feminists come out against the laws to protect the woman. Not one peep of protest from the pro-abort feminists about what these men do when their abortion demands aren't met by the woman. So much for a woman's right to choose.
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