Men: Leave My Uterus Alone and Tell Your Friends to Do the Same

Dear Men,

Why are you still trying to take away our right to decide how, when, and with whom to have babies or staying quiet while others try?

I see woman after woman making social media posts about the rape and humiliation legislation in three states that force probes into vaginas before having an abortion, comments about women not being represented in the hearings, personhood laws that take the right away from women altogether, and endless posts about what the nearest Republican or theist man has said to insult or demean women.

What I have not seen are the outraged men who are concerned that choices are being taken from them, harm may be done to their partners, daughters, mothers, and friends. I see passive men who say they value equality and reproductive rights but do nothing to protect either. Instead many men generally choose to stay silent or only mention your outrage on videos, comments, and links posted by women. Even worse, many of you lead the charge to gain control of our freedom of choice, our future, and our lives.

Some men have decided to publicly address abortion and reproductive rights, including writer Joss Whedon in the comic Buffy.

“A woman's right to choose is under attack as much as it's ever been, and that's a terrible and dangerous thing for this country. I don't usually get soap box-y with this, but the thing about Buffy is all she's going through is what women go through, and what nobody making a speech, holding up a placard, or making a movie is willing to say," Whedon told Entertainment Weekly”

Staying quiet is not an act of courage, it is a willingness to sacrifice women to spare men the discomfort of speaking publicly about it. If you think this is wrong, say it is wrong. Have the courage to confront other men and change the discussion from one which pits women against men to one that pits those who care about making sure reproductive choices are there for everyone against those who would take away those choices.

Thank you,

LaRae
Representative of Women

9 Ways Women and Their Health Were Attacked Today

I am overwhelmed by the volume of actions to take away a woman’s right to plan her future, manage her economic opportunities, and choose when, how, and with whom she has children, and if she puts her life in danger. It is a threatening and frightening time to be woman of child-bearing age.

1. The laws requiring ultrasounds before abortion are bad enough, but forcing a woman to be sexually assaulted by having a probe inserted into her vagina against her will serves no purpose except to traumatize, humiliate, and degrade her.

Gestational Authority

It is fair for a woman to have the final say over if a baby will be gestated inside her. She is the one doing the work and taking the risk.

The Child Abuse Cultural Cowardice - Actual Abuse Takes a Back Seat in Discussion to Psuedo-abuses in Public Debate

I make it a regular practice to engage in online and in-person debates on a variety of subjects. I have engaged in more than one discussion about the effects of gay people on families, on the effects of violence in video games on children, and abortion. All of these have been called child abuse or killing by their proponents. Most of the time, these people are not professionals in child development, they are not experts of any kind in those fields; just interested and concerned people. It occurs to me, though, that I have never engaged in a spirited debate about how to tackle actual child abuse by anyone who did not work in the system. We will talk about a plethora of pseudo-abuses topics worth our attention and discussion but when real lives are at stake, we shut our mouths, turn our heads, and change the subject.

When I realized how much attention I was giving to these hypersensitive, ill founded, PTA-mommy concerns, I was pretty ashamed of myself. I have worked for 15 years with actually abused children. Children with broken bones, punched-in faces, born addicted to meth, raped by their family, pregnant by their fathers, sent to live with their rapists, mothers pimping out their kids, foster kids human trafficked, all things the consequences and actions of which I have seen personally.

Should You be Compelled to Save a Life and Risk Your Own

You know that driving can cause accidents but you drive anyways. One day you get into an accident with another car where you and the other driver are equally at fault. A passenger in the other driver's car is injured but will be fine if he his hooked up to your body so he can use your kidneys to filter blood. There is a significant risk of death if you participate. You will have to stayed hooked up for almost an entire year and will have to pay the medical cost of the person's treatments and living expenses for the next twenty years if you participate. Setting aside insurance for a moment, should you be compelled to do this even if you do not want to?

 

 

Sluts and the Innocent: The Real Reason Why People Want Abortion Outlawed

When a person is against abortion except in the cases of rape or incest, it is not about being pro-life. If they were concerned about the innocent life killed they would feel the same for rape conceptions because even rape babies are innocent babies. They are making a statement about the kind of woman they think is having the abortion and think they should have the right to dole out consequences for slutty or irresponsible women.

Women - Who Needs Those Anways?

The "Protect Life Act" passed by the House has a provision to let a woman die instead of performing an abortion. Who cares, they are just women -- right? Men, how would you feel watching your wife or girlfriend as her life slipped away and she could have been saved but the hospital thought she was not worth as much as her fetus? How much worse would it be if she begged to be saved?

House Passes "Protect Life Act"