Another slam against men

Do Men Have the Right to an Abortion? | RHRealityCheck.org

In typical fashion, Ms. Marconette mocks and then quickly writes off the notion that men have any sort of “choice” when it comes to terminating their parenthood. Let’s go down this point one by one:

1. Ms. Marconette focuses merely on the physical aspects of abortion (i.e “It’s based in the assumption that all people have that basic right to control their own body and their own fertility.”). Yes, Ms. Marconette, and fertility doesn’t stop there. Men have been granted the right to abortions before–in terms of being able to terminate implantation of a frozen egg. By the way, those weren’t exactly “walks in the park”
2. Ms. Marconette ticks off the ways in which men can control their own parenting (“Men are not being blocked by anti-choice protesters, by state laws, by federal laws or by judgmental pharmacists from getting access to the tools to control their own fertility, from condoms to vasectomies”). While failing to note that women have all of those options, if not more (IUD, the pill, the patch, the female condom, etc). Plus, women have two additional options not easily available to men:

• They can physically abort easier than men.
• They can either place the child up for adoption or “abandon” the child at a hospital fireplace or other designated stations (try this: have a man deliver a baby up to any of those places and say that he wants to give up his child. If he doesn’t come away in handcuffs, I will definitely be surprised.).

We therefore have two options that men are not entitled to, yet Ms Marconette mocks these men as whiners when they try to exercise the only option that they have when they are denied the “advantages of living with the family” (ie. being in a meaningful role for their children other than bank account and ATM).

I would encourage you to go there and comment for Ms. Marconette, as I have done in the example below:

After reading this column I have to thank you. For far too long I have wondered about what example to give people when they want to know what fathers face from the family court. Your pure, unbridled vitriol and hatred directed towards men who you pathetically term “whiners” is a beautiful example, and for that I thank you. This is one column that I will definitely keep as a permalink for my readers to show them. I am almost inclined to cite this as an example of extremist feminism and matriarchism in this country, but I wouldn’t want you to think you are more important than you really are. Thanks for the hatred and the half-cocked opinions.

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