It is true that in America, Canada, most of Europe as well as various other places in the world:

 

  • All children born of consensual sex were the result of decisions made by both parents. However, from birth control to carrying the child to term, the mother either consented to or decided what happened;

and,

  • There are men who involuntarily pay child support because of decisions made by the mother.

 

Therefore, it is fair to say that men do not have equal reproductive rights.

 


I was talking to my wife about this issue moments before I posted this and she added this:

A former friend of hers chose to have a baby after a one-night stand.

This friend had literally sat there with two sets of governments forms on either side of her.

On her left, she could sign away the father's parental obligations (and rights) to the child.

On her right, she could consign the father to 18 years of financial and legal responsibilities.

And this was AFTER her legally (and personally) supported right to abort the child.

I won't say which she chose because it's irrelevant.

It's irrelevant because NOBODY should be able to make these kinds of choices for another person.

Nobody should be able to financially subsidize their life (by the way of their child's life) without another person's consent or to decide whether or not a man's life is forever changed, and in what way.

It's yet another unrecognized privilege.

 


 

Sanity Sunday Moment

Keep in mind that it is unrecognized privilege, though, a condition from which most of suffer.

We all live in the lap of relative luxury while 25,000 people die from needless starvation every day - the price of an economy whose only purpose is to benefit the rich.

We live in unrecognized privilege too and so the Golden Rule seems to hold in good stead here: Treat others how you would like to be treated.

Consider how would you be most amenable to internalizing the daily genocide of the global poor and then do that when talking to feminists who have yet to internalize the daily genocide of the working man.

 


Full disclosure: I'm happily married; I don't pay child support; I'm not personally affected by child support.

I do listen to men, though, and I don't automatically assume women have it worse.

That's pretty much all it takes to start breaking down the feminist / misandrist assumptions about men's reproductive responsibilities and both are actions consistent with what can now only be considered as the classic Left.

 


Questions

 

How do you think we can better establish men's reproductive rights?

 

Have you ever considered this to be a reproductive rights issue?

 

What constructive criticism can you offer based on your personal experience?