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Kotenks posted...

This is not a men vs. women issue. The constant framing of it in this way is dishonest. Half of women are pro-life. When we look at gender, we see the same about 50/50 split.

The existence of pro-life women doesn't change that this isn't an issue men should be weighing in on at all. The men (and it is overwhelmingly men) passing legislation like this will never have to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, no matter what laws are passed. Much like straight people voting against gay marriage, it's a matter of people who have the privilege of not caring about such legislation creating it and hurting people without that privilege.

Kotenks posted...

So I'm not certain what this person means by men being excluded.

That post spells it out: Every single aborted pregnancy has a man attached to it, yet that man is never subjected to any of the penalties people seek to apply to that abortion. The narrative is consistently "you (the woman) should have been more responsible," completely ignoring that another person was equally complicit in creating the pregnancy. Overwhelmingly, the attitude is that women should be punished for having sex by being forced to carry their pregnancy to term, as evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of pro-lifers stop giving a shit about the child the instant it's born.

You still haven't answered: Why is it that you feel "they had to get the ball rolling"?

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