I would rather work on stories, but this is a rare blog, from thoughts surfacing as I wrote the prologue to 2084 hen gase.
In modern thinking, reproductive freedom is a right given to a woman to decide the destiny of the fetal tissue in her body, or whatever term you want to use to refer to it. No matter that abortion has been shown to emotionally scar many women for decades, and no matter that profiteering has been taking place on removed fetal tissue for years, and no matter that few other options are generally advanced, and no matter that you yourself absolutely would not take kindly to someone else deciding you need to stop existing… The right to reproductive freedom apparently over-rules all of that, and so… some form of abortion, termination is the usual, almost accepted outcome. But this whole line of thinking has a glaring, fundamental error, a disgusting oversight.
We need to explore this reproductive freedom scenario a little more closely. Ok, so lets start with a man and a woman, choosing together to engage in sexual intercourse. And, since it feels the best, no conception prevention mechanisms are in place. As is generally the case, the woman becomes pregnant…
— The man can easily, and usually will walk away from this fun night, without accepting any responsibility.
— The woman absolutely cannot. If she decides to have the baby, she will be dogged with 20+ years of almost continual responsibility. Otherwise, she will need to take steps to terminate the pregnancy, go through one or numerous medical procedures, accepting whatever physical / emotional health issues this will likely bring, now and/or many years down the road… all that from just one evening of enjoyment…
Can you see this glaring discrepancy? This reproductive freedom is assumed to be the woman’s battle, her fight, while the man is left completely out of the picture, gone on his way, gone… He took a shower, and got over it. He had his fun and is off in pursuit of the next… Both got their enjoyment (hopefully), but from that point on, the impact is vastly, hugely different between the man and the woman. Even in the public arena, it is the woman, women who feel the need to fight to not have to be burdened by… the man refusing to accept even partial responsibility for his role in what they both enjoyed! As groups fight over serious moral questions, fight for and against abortion and all that it is… The man gets off scott-free, and can, and will keep doing the same thing to other women… and nobody cares about him any more! He has vanished, slithered back into anonymity, ready for more, and nobody cares!
Why can’t we see that this is so horribly one-sided?
Why haven’t women realized they are being brutally taken advantage of, even apart from how the pregnancy is handled?
With the reproductive freedom fight, men are the real winners, and it doesn’t even matter what ultimately happens. Through smoke and mirrors, men have achieved the ability to have (take) sex whenever they want it, then walk away, legally get away with ZERO obligations. Most probably don’t care… “Eh, let the women fight out that reproductive freedom thing, have fun with that. I’m outta’ here anyway…”
If this is modern thinking…
— c2019 by Shysage
