Reply #44: And the men who are pro-choice? [View All]

[Warren DeMontague]

Because there were a lot of us at the April 25 march in DC last year. I know, I was one of them. Karen Hughes, a woman, compared us 1.2 million marchers to terrorists.

Really, I thought that the right to control one's own body was paramount, regardless of gender. Obviously laws against abortion are directed against women and as such it's a women's (or womyn's, if you'd like) issue.

But as far as a big conspiracy perpetrated by MEN-in-all-caps, as part of a vast patriarchal agenda, no, I don't exactly buy it. Granted dragging the country back to the 50s is part of the imagined goal, with the control of sexually active, independent women (and everyone else) that implies.

But I think it's equally, if not more, valid to look at the drive to criminalize abortion (along with birth control) as part of the battle to turn the US into a Christian Theocracy, and also as part of the larger battle between the CONTROL FREAKS (also in all caps) among us who seemingly can't live their lives without telling others how to live theirs, vs. the rest of us who would just like to be left the fuck alone to do with our own bodies as we choose.