If men could get pregnant

[kdmorris]

75. To clarify

I'm not saying that your statements are anti-choice. I'm saying that this OP was made on DU, where I assume that the support for choice among men approaches 100%. In the general population, by your standards, 81% of men are pro-choice. So, posting this here does nothing except further divide us along gender lines. You want to say "If Republican men got pregnant, then abortion would be a sacrament" then I might even get behind that and agree with it.

But lumping all the good men here on DU with the people who are in power and who are trying to eliminate choice (and a bunch of other women's reproductive rights) out in "the world" doesn't do anything except be "in your face" with men who are already on our side.

So, to be clear, what I am saying that I disagree with your statement:

I'm saying if men gave birth, access to abortion (and all family planning) would be much, much, much easier. If anything, I'm saying they would be even more pro-choice.

I don't believe that they can be anymore pro-choice given that, at this point in time, when they do have power - you've stated that men are 81% pro-choice (since we are only looking at the last line).

Furthermore - I believe that the comments made on this thread - that have nothing to do with abortion, but with men's ability to bear pain, give birth and parent are pretty sexist. They do nothing but further anger and alienate a group of good people who are already on our side.

So, again, to be clear posting this kind of stuff is sexist and goes after our allies (since they are the men here), not our enemies:

There would be only one baby born and it would be a male
and the proud papa would do so much screaming that no other male would ever attempt it.
Then he'd turn it over to a passing woman to raise.

they'd only have one baby

the human race would become extinct

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Seriously, we don't even need enemies if we are just going to keep tearing each other apart like this. This is the simple truth:

There are some women who are assholes.
There are some men who are assholes.
There are some Catholics/Religious people who are assholes.
There are some Atheists who are assholes.
There are some African-Americans who are assholes.
There are some Caucasians who are assholes.
ETC
Judging an entire group by the assholes among us is wrong and is, at best, stereotypical. At worst, it's bigoted. Hope that clarifies it for you.