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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]Politicub
(12,165 posts)As a man, it's not up to me to make this choice or put roadblocks in place for someone else to make the choice.
When you take away the ability for women to control when and if they want to have kids, you chip away at one of the underpinnings of women's liberation.
The continuing emancipation of women is one of the most important movements in human history. There is still work to be done, but I hope women never give in an inch on the rights people have worked hundreds of years to secure.
The far right wants to control women. Otherwise, they would be the leading advocates for expanding access to birth control since empirical studies show that contraception availability reduces the number of abortions.
But I have yet to see a right winger champion birth control. If given control over the womb again, the right will never let it slip away. It's up to all of us to make sure this never happens.