Sitting on the bus, listening to my Discman (me, that is...I’m doing all this; I forgot to include a subject). RHCP’s "Scar Tissue" is the current track and I’m thinking about how much I like the song, and it’s really a shame that RHCP is anti-life (if the other side is going to insist on "anti-choice," it’s only fair for me to pull the same damn thing). I got to thinking about why do so many men allow themselves to be push-overs. "I don’t feel like it’s my place to say," is what they claim.

(I do most of my pondering on the bus. I’m not above public transportation, no, I take it every day from school.)

I’m sure I’m not the first person to think of this, but I know I haven’t heard this argument used before, so I just thought I’d share my thoughts with ya’ll.

Abortion is misogynistic. Yep.

I’m not going to even tackle the "It’s my body and I’ll do whatever I want" crap. I don’t even know of any pro-abortion jerks that really even believe that the baby and the mother are fused together as one person.

I’m going to instead dissect the vague statement about how it’s a "woman’s right."

A woman’s right to kill her child. Her child. She’ll be damned if a man is going to dictate what she can do with her child. And in fact, it’s even legal for a woman to get an abortion without the husband’s consent. What is this implying? That it’s her child. The woman is allowed all the rights. The man, the father, doesn’t have any rights to the child, and without rights, he has no responsibilities or obligations to the child. That's not something that magically changes when the child is born. Now that’s awfully misogynistic to impose all the responsibilities of parenthood onto the mother, right?

So obviously the man should have half the responsibilities of parenthood. Therefore, the child also becomes his, and so now... shouldn’t he have a say as to abortion then? But then it’s no longer a "woman’s right."

To recap: Women want sole "rights," but not the sole responsibilities.

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