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In a recent newsletter, Heather Cox Richardson details the genesis of women’s right to vote in this country. The suffragettes’ manifesto was structured like the Declaration of …
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In a recent newsletter, Heather Cox Richardson details the genesis of women’s right to vote in this country. The suffragettes’ manifesto was structured like the Declaration of Independence. The language made all citizens responsible for giving their consent to the governed — white and black men and women and all others.
I thought of the mostly white men in this country who have re-exerted their tyranny over women, doing their best to delete history. Those arguing in favor of zero tolerance for abortion keep talking about “saving the children.” How is forcing a woman to bring an unwanted baby into the world doing anything to “save” that child?
That dumbfounding and arrogant lack of logic leads me to another observation. Why are anti-abortionists not demanding an equal right to control a man’s body? Why is it that men retain the right to get a vasectomy and thus prevent a child’s inception? Women are being forced to endure nine months of pregnancy in order to assure that another unwanted child struggles into life, very possibly destined for abuse and rejection. We know what happens to damaged children. They damage themselves and others while often ending up in jail. Why, then, is it not logical to force men to always be aware that the use of their regenerative organ could result in children they might be obliged to pay for, even spend time with? Will the child of such a reluctant father prosper?
Indeed, what of the men who do not want the woman they impregnated to have the baby? At least in the fictions I have watched and read, men are the first to want to help the woman get an abortion, rather than accept responsibility for an “accidental human.” How do they feel now that women AND men must parent an unwanted child?
Linda Egan
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CodexSeraphinianus
Bless your heart!
Thursday, September 1, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
"Women are being forced to endure nine months of pregnancy in order to assure that another unwanted child struggles into life"..... No, they're not. There are birth control measures that women have used for years, from pills to tubal ligation. And most of the states allow ********* within certain time frames. To the states that prohibit ********* it's up to the people of those states to create, through their legislature, new laws if they want a change.
Thursday, September 1, 2022 Report this
CodexSeraphinianus
Agreed.
Thursday, September 1, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
A B O R T I O N,
Thursday, September 1, 2022 Report this
MargeS
Birth Control for men and women. Only one catch, whose going to sell that to the religious fanatics?
Thursday, September 1, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
If you know some then it's your job.
Thursday, September 1, 2022 Report this
AAA3
Justin...that is why ra'"g/p"e works in your favor.
Saturday, September 3, 2022 Report this
CodexSeraphinianus
How does that work in anyones favor? What a question?!?!
Saturday, September 3, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
AAA3, the great censor program that the Leader uses rendered your comment unintelligible. Be kreative and find a way to delivr your coment.....
Saturday, September 3, 2022 Report this
Thomas Camfield
We can argue on this topic all day long . . . and women everywhere will still get the worse of it.
Saturday, September 3, 2022 Report this
CodexSeraphinianus
Matter of opinion
Sunday, September 4, 2022 Report this
Thomas Camfield
Don't leave hit-and-run famers out of your thinking.
Sunday, September 4, 2022 Report this