Oh Jenny, Don’t Be Hasty
A friend of mine today posted a bulletin via MySpace on a big controversial topic: abortion. I try to steer clear of controversy, but after reading this entry, I felt it was necessary to respond.
As a man, I really don’t have a view one way or another on abortion. I feel that since I will never be able to bear children inside my body, I really don’t have any say as to what a woman can do with hers. If I were to ever have intercourse with a woman and impregnate her, I would consider my sperm leaving my body and entering hers as a gift, with the child that is created being a product of that gift (after all, we do call it the “gift of life” don’t we?). I don’t tell people what to do with my Christmas gifts after I give them out, so why should I tell a woman what she can do with my gifted sperm?
Nonetheless, you’ll still have people throwing religion and moral rhetoric in the direction of those who are pro-choice. Okay, here’s a solution: If we, as men and politicians (who mostly are men), have the right to tell a woman what she can do with her life-giving body part, I think women should have the right to tell us what to do with our life-giving body part. That’s right—men control the uterus, women control the testicles. In fact, if abortion is made illegal, I think it should be made illegal that men cannot masturbate or therein use their testicles until the age of thirty-five. After this law is passed, I guarantee you’ll see abortions, teen pregnancies and unwed couples go down, as well as sexually transmitted diseases.
I also guarantee that a lot more Republicans would probably change their mind on abortion.
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