Progressive women often assert that men have no say with regard to abortion because “men don’t have a reproductive system”. Men are not capable of getting pregnant, but men have one half of the two reproductive systems needed for a pregnancy to occur. But that’s semantics. What they really mean to say is that since only women can get pregnant, they are the only ones who have the right of ultimate decision-making when it comes to abortion. Women are the gender of our two sexes that gets pregnant, that’s true, but what gives a woman the exclusive right of decision making over the life and death of a man’s children? Would it be permissible for a stranger, be they a man or a woman, to claim the exclusive right to say whether or not a man’s child be killed? He didn’t carry the baby so he should sit down and shutup?
The Progressive position also implies an exclusive and prevailing association between the female gender and the very position of being “pro-choice”, as if to say “Of course women are pro-choice, they are women!” But there are plenty of men who are pro-choice and many women who are not. On the abortion position there are in reality only two groups of people – those who take for themselves the right to choose personal convenience over the life of a helpless human being, and those who do not.
The Progressive position also implies an exclusive and prevailing association between the female gender and the very position of being “pro-choice”, as if to say “Of course women are pro-choice, they are women!” But there are plenty of men who are pro-choice and many women who are not. On the abortion position there are in reality only two groups of people – those who take for themselves the right to choose personal convenience over the life of a helpless human being, and those who do not.
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