Oklahoma lawmakers want men to approve all abortions

[dead0man]

     It's really about restricting access to abortion. As long as the result would be fewer abortions, they don't care if the law itself actually makes any kind of sense.

Indeed, just like the anti-gunners.


Obviously (right?) this is unconstitutional and is never going to be law.

[dead0man]

I support this bill on a men's rights basis, not on a "pro-life" (a meaningless word these days) basis.

I sympathize with this kind of thinking to a certain degree...but there are simply waaaaay too many unintended and horrifying consequences that override that basis, and that's without the cynical way it's used to distract from other issues, nor the unenforceable nature inherent in it.

indeed.

It's not fair.  Women have to carry around a living thing in them for 9 months, dealing with everything that comes with that (not that it's all horrible, pregnant women get treated like minor gods in my experience...and rightfully so), but they get to be the only ones to decide if that pile of mush becomes a human or not.  Men don't have to carry anything around inside them, but they get (legally) zero say in whether that mush pile gets a name or not.

It's not fair, but it is what it is and until men or science can make a baby, that's how it should stay.