The answer is actually remarkably simple, and it's this: it doesn't matter whether what's growing inside you is liable to end up as a man or a woman. What matters is whether the person it's growing inside – the person who is going to have to deliver the resulting baby, at not inconsiderable personal peril – actually wants to be pregnant and give birth to this child. In a world where it's possible to end a pregnancy safely and legally, it seems like rank brutality to force anyone to carry to term against her will.
And there you have it.
And there you do have it. Their entire argument. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me.
I like "what's growing inside you is liable to end up as a man or a woman." How distanced.
Posted by: TheCrankyProfessor | September 21, 2013 at 05:47 PM
If the "what's growing inside you" is nothing more than surplus tissue, which an adult has the right to snip off like a fingernail, why exactly is it that the woman can decide to keep it and force the man to pay for 18+ years of its education?
Posted by: Izzy S | September 22, 2013 at 05:48 PM
Is pregnancy now some sort of air borne virus?
Does one no longer have any option as to avoiding the sort of actions that result in pregnancy?
Posted by: titan | September 23, 2013 at 07:08 AM