Excerpts from Chapter 6
Men's ABC Rights and Responsibilities: Abortion, Birth,
Caring
In the old days, a woman's biology was a woman's destiny.
Not good. In this chapter it will become clear why, today, a
woman's biology is a man's destiny.
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Men's "A" Right & Responsibility: Abortion:
or The Fallacy of "It's a Woman's Right to Choose Because
It's a Woman's Body"
A woman's body is hers to control. When she chooses to share
it with a man, she exercises that control. He makes a parallel
choice. If together they produce a fetus, equality would dictate
joint rights and joint responsibilities. Male-female fusion
does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
It does not produce what German feminists call Reproduktionsautonomie,
or reproduction autonomy, but reproductive interdependence.
The motto "It's a woman's right to choose because it's
a woman's body at stake" implies that if a man's body is
also at stake, he would share that right to choose.
Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to
pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life
-- not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years.
So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, "It's a
woman's and man's right to choose because it is a woman's and
man's body at stake."
A woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the
rest of a man's life any more than a man would have the right
to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman's life.
That's why rape is a crime.
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