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Model35mech

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20. Men belong to society and have legitimate interests in it's laws
Tue May 3, 2022, 02:46 PM
May 2022

Just like pedestrians have interests in traffic law.

Just like borrowers have interest in foreclosure laws pushed by banks.

Just like city dwellers have interests in federal lands, and rural people have interest in urban pollution.

We're all in this. It's true that men don't carry pregnancies, and absolutely the fight IS for HER CHOICE TO SELF-DETERMINATION with respect to pregnancy and abortion. But it's clear that a Constitutional RIGHT to self-determination is a right that would potentially reach beyond just abortion. It would touch transsexual, and homosexual, it would touch the disabled, and the medically and psychologically ill, and surely others.

Laws whose sole purpose is to impose punishment on natural human drives can't be seen as promoting a system of justice that promotes human rights.

Please, while in anger, realize your angry and don't go forward thinking ALL cis-men are the enemy of self-determination and abortion rights.

Look at the obvious...a 6-3 majority opinion coming out of SCOTUS to over-ride Roe will include both sexes. State laws and state constitutional amendments that are needed to enshrine Self-determination as a fundamental right will require the support of ALL genders.

Please recognize that not all women are abortion supporters, belief in choice and belief in anti-abortion really does cross gender barriers.

Preserving abortion rights needs votes and voices, not the silence, turned heads, and zipped purses of the alienated. I think when people get into the hard work that is ahead of this last fight for self-determination including abortion, the absolute need for broad support and best arguments, wherever they come from, will become more and more clear.

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K&R!!!!! 2naSalit May 2022 #1
Kick! love_katz May 2022 #2
Those ideas further inject the State into medical care and personal decisions bucolic_frolic May 2022 #3
+1 Martin Eden May 2022 #4
Class action lawsuits for women conscripted by the state to bear children for the state. scarletlib May 2022 #5
how is this not sharia law of a different church? pansypoo53219 May 2022 #6
Right! Delmette2.0 May 2022 #13
To the forced birthers; keithbvadu2 May 2022 #15
Yes, that too! Delmette2.0 May 2022 #16
great ideas! RicROC May 2022 #18
the idea that that the anti-choice agenda stopdiggin May 2022 #14
Kick and Recommend!! Welcome to DU @Praek3. iluvtennis May 2022 #7
Just remember... FalloutShelter May 2022 #8
Again, rownesheck May 2022 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author RevBrotherThomas May 2022 #10
Men belong to society and have legitimate interests in it's laws Model35mech May 2022 #20
Free mandatory vasectomies IronLionZion May 2022 #11
Ya Vent, It's a terrible threat to women's self-determination, and self-defense of their futures Model35mech May 2022 #12
You think SCOTUS listens to logic and public opinion bucolic_frolic May 2022 #17
Well, not exclusively, but many do listen to public opinions from the Federalists Model35mech May 2022 #19
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