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In reply to the discussion: I had an abortion at 7 months pregnant in 1978. [View all]valerief
(53,235 posts)I'm very tired of the "hardest decision of my life" stories. Men don't have to make these decisions. And shouldn't. Their bodies aren't affected.
Men may have to make decisions about whether or not to support a child of theirs that's born. For the most part, women don't really have that choice once they bear a child. If they don't want to live with the guilt of giving the baby away, they're stuck with supporting it.
Men don't get to have a "perspective" on abortion--or shouldn't--just as women don't/shouldn't have a perspective on vasectomies or Viagra. Opinions, yes, but the perspective is all on the person whose body it's affecting.
You sound like a rational person, so I don't mean to finger-wag. I wish I was young enough to live to see the day when men have no say in abortion. (Well, we love the male medical professionals who agree to perform the abortions, but we love the female professionals who do them, too. Medical professionals, of course, should have a say. But not a legal say.) But I'm old now and will die before that day ever comes.
Some of us atheists would hate religion less if it didn't continually keep women second-class citizens. But I guess that's what religion is for anyway.