If men could get pregnant

[frazzled]

19. As my mother used to say

If men could get pregnant, we wouldn't have any babies.

I remember her coming to stay with me after my first child was born. You know, ladies, how you kind of look like a mess after 26 hours of hard labor, and you waddle around for a week or two (episiotomy, you know). I remember her saying to me, in a sort of remembering way, "oh, you poor baby. Men could never go through this. They simply wouldn't be able to take it."

But back to the point: men would be having abortions right and left because if they were pregnant at 17 (or 26, or 34) and single, and had an education or career to consider ... they would not think twice about controlling the planning of their families. But they never think of women, our daughters, in this way: the impact an unwanted pregnancy would have on their entire lives.

I hope to god science figures out a way to make men pregnant.