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In reply to the discussion: if men got pregnant..... [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Who, to be fair, didn't argue that all anti abortion activists are women. Clearly the truth is it's pretty much evenly divided.
Nor would I argue men aren't the privileged sex. I think the joke the OP makes is absolutely right that if men had to deal directly with pregnancy, we would have long ago established the right to privacy and control of one's one body.
But the fact remains there isn't any vast gender differential in who supports women's reproductive rights. As your own materials show, it's always been about evenly split, with a very small differential toward men opposing abortion rights that emerged around 2012.
It may be counterintuitive that people of a given cultural identity would argue against their own equality, but it is nevertheless true in some cases.