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I wrote the attached article in 2018. I'm glad to see the conversations on this issue are becoming more substantive, rather than folks standing in their uncompromising corners and yelling at each other. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qPfG1vgT1vMwujYWcYxTp0foSEZLfkJBErtwXAvQJ5c/edit?copiedFromTrash

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Why do men continue to wonk on about this subject? Has a man ever been through the heartache of having to give up a child to a shitty foster home life? Likely needing to because his economic status is so far below that of women, that both he and the child would enter into a failure to thrive context by staying together.

How many men have been raped, sexually abused on an ongoing basis by a family member, or subjected to mental torture by an abusive spouse who breaks down his ability to reason so far that he makes stupid decisions with dire consequences? Like self medicating through street drug addiction, which, by the way would do wonders for a fetus that is forced to go through a full term pregnancy. Only to be born to a severely compromised life. How about being a victim of sex trafficking/slavery?

It's too bloody depressing to list every single one of the overwhelmingly miserable life compromises that the majority of women on the planet face every day. Those women who are forced into this condition, at the hands of those brutal men who range the planet and who perpetrate these largely illegal markets, do not represent a "mere 1.5%" of women who may need an abortion.

The inequities between men with brute force/economic power over women are at the root of the abortion question. And it's shameful that in the current century, humanity has not yet risen above this complicity to oppress women. By compelling so many under-resourced women to bring "cannon fodder" (for both the military and prison industrial complexes) to full term is tantamount to an ongoing war that is waged against those too poor and politically powerless to defend their right to thriving.

It is always the most under-resourced women in the US who are hurt the most by the incessant blathering of tired old white guys who don't know the first thing about what it is to walk for a day in a woman's shoes.

In my opinion, I think we will begin to see a significant improvement over the travesty of this situation by mandating that this endless blather be silenced. That white guys who don't know jack drek from their bums would kindly shut the hell up would be such an amazing grace bestowed on the rest of us.

Why is this continuing attack on abortion and the right to choose a war on underprivileged women? Because women of means will always have access to any number of methods to control the trajectory of their lives, and have every reason to expect a full realization of their lives. Women of means will always have access to any choice pertaining to what happens to their bodies.

Thus, this argument is just another instance of class persecution. It really has nothing to do with "murder" nor any other purposefully inflammatory rhetoric shoved onto the rest of us.

How long before humanity can evolve above this twisted travesty?

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The reproductive health act does not allow abortions up until birth. You probably wouldn't get the "christian hate" if you didn't lie so much while professing to be christian.

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