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In reply to the discussion: If men could get pregnant [View all]4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)97. If it's no advantage would you give it up?
Would most women?
I read little is known of women's heart attacks
Fewer women have heart attacks. More is known about the effects of breast cancer in women than in men. Does this prove researchers are biased? Or that they have more female patients to work with?
But the idea that having an average higher life span is a great big advantage is silly. You're talking about an average couple of years being old.
Change the discussion, let's say we're comparing whites to blacks. Would you say that black people dying younger on average (and they do in this country) is a silly little thing that they shouldn't worry about? It's just a couple of years.
Funny how shifting the group from men/women to anything else exposes bigotry.
And that may even out as women do more things. It may have started since women had less stress. Also, childbirth was dangerous, which was no health benefit. But technology has made that less of a problem. Those are the things that affect an average.
It doesn't seem to be evening out. What 'things' are women doing more of that will change this?
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Because the law, set up by men, would never allow a man to be saddled with a kid he didn't want
4th law of robotics
Oct 2012
#42
you seem completely unaware family planning and prenatal care is woefully inadequate in the USA?
bettyellen
Oct 2012
#85
If men could get pregnant, gestation would be genetically engineered to last a week, tops. n/t
porphyrian
Oct 2012
#20
I've got the bumper sticker, "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
HopeHoops
Oct 2012
#26
A friend of mine, a mother of four children, once said to me that if men could get pregnant,
Cleita
Oct 2012
#28
Men have access to all sorts of free or subsidized family planning options such as . . .
4th law of robotics
Oct 2012
#63
men have access to the resources they demand. there is no market for male contraceptive in the USA.
bettyellen
Oct 2012
#81
The assumption being that we dedicate far more resources to men's health
4th law of robotics
Oct 2012
#35
in the real world, men routinely refuse to wear condoms, to pay child support. Most couples I know
bettyellen
Oct 2012
#72
sorry- but you refuse to acknowledge the reality of both history and biology and double down with
bettyellen
Oct 2012
#76