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Jon, I can't agree with you completely. I do agree that this is ( or should be) everyone's fight. EVERYONE'S! But, where I disagree is this: Not one single man in the United States, entering a doctor's office, would be refused reproductive health services based on his gender. Therefore, any man working to overturn Roe is operating u…
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Jon, I can't agree with you completely. I do agree that this is ( or should be) everyone's fight. EVERYONE'S! But, where I disagree is this: Not one single man in the United States, entering a doctor's office, would be refused reproductive health services based on his gender. Therefore, any man working to overturn Roe is operating under the assumption that men have the right over women to determine a women's reproductive healthcare decisions including abortion and contaception. Assuming you are a man, until you personally are able to conceive a child, you cannot ever fully understand the impact of that biological process, physically, emotionally, financially, professionally. Nor can you ever understand the fact that the inability of women to have a CHOICE a is punishment based solely on gender and situation of pregnancy. We are being punished by so called men of faith and supposed high moral stature who couldn't care less about an unwanted child. The women who have joined their ranks do so in order to retain power over other women if and when the shoe finally drops and CHOICE is taken away from women.
To get right down to it, even white men who are not of the elect are more respected than women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Differently Abled. I understand where you're coming from and I appreciate your sentiments. But right now, being a biological creature with a uterus, able to conceive a child is the sole factor in determining whether or not 1/2 the population of the United States will have full citizenship or not.
Do either of you know if there is a male contraceptive pill......available?
I read about a study of one, but if I remember correctly they shut it down cause those poor men got headaches.
I'll see if I can find the story.
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+there+a+male+contraceptive+pill&oq=is+there+a+male+contraceptive+pill&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i8i30j0i390l3.14036j1j7&client=ms-android-samsung-gj-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
This report did not mention that men who have vasectomies have less prostate problems.
Also the Celinda Lake pollsters do make a mistake once in a while ..."believe the biggest failure lies at the feet of National Democratic pollster Celinda Lake and other Democratic party operatives whose job it is to read and understand public opinion, which in turn drives intervention effort..."
I believe the majority of women in the USA are pro-choise.
Thank you.