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Oh, puleeze
Mary Anne — (archived)

Point # 1

As if a woman who keeps a baby doesn't have a commitment of 18 years...

As it stands now, the woman gets all the turmoil and the man can walk away. If the right-to-life movement would require a woman by law to bear a child, then the father ought not to walk off scot free. That's sexual discrimination.

If the woman can choose, it's not.

Men can choose too. They don't have to be sperm donors if they don't want to be.

"Getting off the childbirth hook": what a lovely turn of phrase. Women have bled to death, you know. They have gotten infections. They have had pre-eclampsia and pregnancy diabetes. They have Rh incompatibilities that turn them into human pincushions for 9 months. And those are only the run-of-the-mill things. You would compare this to a low-wage job? 'Tis to laugh! A man can quit a low-wage job. If the right-to-life movement gets its way, a woman won't have this option. And guess what else? You can't go on disability because of long-term complications resulting from pregnancy, because it's not "work".

If a man hasn't hung around long enough to notice he has gotten a woman pregnant, he hasn't got enough of a relationship with her to be considered. If a man gets a woman pregnant with the thought that then she can't leave him (the Rape of the Sabine Women courtship option), should she have to put up with that?

Point #2:

Fine -- and you decided this. You didn't have it decided for you. It also didn't require you to have your personal biology altered, in some ways forever. And in some ways that could, quite possibly, kill you.

The idea is to be able to choose, one way or the other. I hear you -- she chose already. Did she choose for her birth control method to fail? Did she choose to be raped by her date or by a stranger? Did she choose for the man she thought loved her to run out on her? Did she choose to transmit a fatal, painful genetic disease?

Ah, it must be simple to be right.

Regards--
Mary Anne

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