Abortion rights activist says ....."Stand down if you don't have ovaries!!

"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."

 Their own rhetoric of "my body, my choice" is having the unintended consequence of telling men that this is not their fight and to stay out of it. Never mind that it still takes a man to make the baby but then tells the man since he will not carry the baby in his womb..... it is none of his business.

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.....

Jill Stanek  devotes her weekend question to asking for reader comments on Why  the shortage of outspoken pro choice men?  Some really good responses are pouring in but  the one by Gerard Nadal is my personal favorite...

"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."