I Will Lie to Patients. (Well, Only if They Are Having an Abortion)
Aaron Gouveia is outraged that a new law in Arizona and nine other states will allow doctors to lie to their patients about fetal deformities. Apparently I missed the portion of the Hippocratic Oath...
View ArticleMen and Birth Control
The same reasons for men to be involved in the issue of contraception exist that always have; raising children is too important to do solely by accident. Hugo Schwyzer wrote in these pages about the...
View ArticleAbortions, Men, Women, and being Called Sluts and Murderers
Abortion, contraception, reproductive rights — these are issues of both men and women. Here are two stories. In today’s New York Times, Susan Heath writes an opinion piece titled “No One Called Me a...
View ArticleTen Things I’ve Learned From “Having” An Abortion
Originally appeared at Ten Things I’ve Learned Note: in the USA right now, exceptionally Conservative Republicans are working overtime to make it impossible for a woman to have an abortion (at least...
View ArticleThe Right to Life; The Right to End It [Video]
It’s your life. But is it yours to end? This was previously published on New Plateaus. A difficult, but thought-provoking issue is the case of Englishman, Tony Nicklinson. The 57-year-old suffered a...
View ArticleAbortion: 7/28
Men have abortion stories, too. Whatever your views, abortion is not solely a women’s issue. Men, as well as women, cross borders and break laws to get to abortion clinics. Men also end pregnancies...
View ArticleSomeone Else’s Protest
The children brought to rallies are on adult ground, holding signs made for them by other people. Are men with opinions on abortion actually on women’s ground? When I was a little boy my parents took...
View ArticleWhere You Came From
These things don’t always work, says Mother. Where do you think your sister came from? Note to readers: This anonymous essay is a true account, according to the author. It is sexually explicit. Mother...
View ArticleDelivered from Abortion: Healing a Forgotten Memory
“Did Mother ever tell you about the time she was going to abort you?” my sister asked casually. — Late in the fall of 1943, as Nazi submarines terrorized Allied shipping, a young Navy officer and his...
View ArticleHis Right to Choose
When Jess Prominski asked her new partner his views on abortion in the event of unplanned pregnancy, she was surprised by his answer. “Abortion”—the context and meaning of this word has been in the...
View ArticleTaking a Stand: Why I Support a Woman’s Right to Choose
Every woman should have the right to control what happens with her own body. This was originally published on Change From Within. I recently had a young man reach out to me and ask about why I am such...
View ArticleLetter to My Unborn Child
Nick Florest writes to someone he loves who never was. Dear … Dear. Dear … I don’t know what to call you. I tried to mask the pain of it all. So quickly and callously I came to the decision, I honestly...
View ArticleIt’s Her Choice
In Richard Essery’s opinion, abortion is an area best left to those unexpectedly expecting. It’s OK for men to have an opinion on abortion, but that doesn’t mean we should have the final say. In my...
View ArticleWhose Abortion Would Jesus Support?
When Christians and feminists enter the abortion argument focused on rights, they disregard their own defining values. As a Christian man whose academic study involves feminism I am troubled trying to...
View ArticleWhose Life Is This?
Keith Doyle, a man with second sight and precognitive dreams sees pregnancy, and abortion, in a different light. Men do not need to see through the eyes of women to understand abortion; because the...
View ArticleThe Day I Went For An Abortion
So long as people think abortions only happen to people they don’t know, they’ll continue to limit our choice. It is a truism that it’s much easier to discriminate against a class of people whom you...
View ArticleI Wish My Mother Had Aborted Me
Lynn Beisner explains the difference between the two phrases “The best choice for both my mother and me would have been abortion” and “I wish I had never been born.” Originally appeared at...
View ArticleMy Response to ‘The Good Men Project: The Day I Went for an Abortion’
What is the worth of one life? This was previously published on Remittance Girl’s blog. At the age of ten, I lived in Madrid. The first thing I remember about the event was watching my mother carry a...
View ArticleA Reverence for Reproductive Justice
Rev. Matthew Westfox appears on MSNBC to talk about Christianity and reproductive rights. The Reverend Matthew Westfox is on a mission from God: to make justice and compassion central to the...
View ArticleParables of Reproductive Justice: An Interview with Rev. Matthew Westfox
What do the Bible and Jesus Christ have to say about a woman’s right to choose? As a Christian minister, Reverend Matthew Westfox makes a religious argument for reproductive justice when speaking to...
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