What Most Men Miss About the Abortion Debate

The Baby-Centric View Misses an Entire World — the Woman’s

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Things are heating up in the United States, with the possibility of a new Supreme Court justice being chosen to replace the legendary justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to sit on the Supreme Court and decide the fate of American laws that move on passed our various houses of government to the body who has the final say.

With this, fears have been renewed that we could one day live in a world where abortion is no longer a federally protected, constitutionally protected right. Setting aside this discussion for another time, I think it’s wise to revisit the abortion discussion and point out some things that I see men constantly miss about the abortion debate.

To quote MSNBC’s Barbara McQuade on the subject:

Barrett threatens to push the court hard to the right on issues such as health care, gun control and abortion. Giving the court a 6–3 conservative majority, Barrett poses a genuine threat to overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that recognized a woman’s right to an abortion without excessive government restrictions. This isn’t conjecture: Barrett has in the past expressed strong views opposing abortion. As a professor at Notre Dame Law School, she was a member of an anti-abortion group…