Posted on 06/13/2019 12:00:00 AM PDT by Morgana
On June 6, liberal activist Christopher Keelty announced to the world how he benefited from his child’s death by abortion. Ironically, he did this on the online publication Fatherly, which describes itself as “the leading digital media brand for dads.”
Keelty wrote an essay titled What My Partner’s Abortion Taught Me: Men Benefit From Choice, Too after he and his partner Liz decided they were not “ready” to have kids.
The couple was in Utah last fall for a marathon when they found out Liz’s IUD failed and she was pregnant:
We’d rushed to the hospital earlier that day, knowing a failed IUD can be a life-threatening emergency. Luckily, the sonogram showed that her life was safe, but we were less confident about her rights. The date was October 7, 2018. A day before, two thousand miles away, Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice.
Alas, abortion didn’t become illegal overnight when Kavanaugh joined the Supreme Court, despite liberals’ hyperbolic warnings and hysterics.
Keelty tried to tie their personal experience last year to the “draconian restrictions” in recent state pro-life bills, but completely bungled it, repeating the debunked lie that women would go to jail for having an abortion:
Liz was at least six weeks pregnant, which meant under some new laws, an abortion would have made her a felon, facing a prison sentence up to 99 years — as would the doctor who performed the procedure. Under Georgia’s newest law, had we been residents and left the state to obtain a legal abortion elsewhere, we’d both be eligible for long prison sentences.
Liz asked if he was okay with them having an abortion and Keelty was proud to report that not only did he agree, “more importantly — while I appreciated being asked, my opinion didn’t matter. Her body belonged to her, not me, and no pregnancy would change that.” Yes, her body belongs to her, but a child’s body does not belong to his or her parents. Pregnancy changed the fact there was then another human’s body living within her body and that child’s life wasn’t theirs to take.
Keelty then went on to talk about how the abortion personally and professionally benefited him, going so far as to falsely imply that thousands of women will die if Roe falls.
While the decision was entirely hers, Liz’s choice to terminate benefitted me. It meant I could continue pursuing the personal and professional life I wanted. The laws that protect that choice also meant I wouldn’t lose my partner to a botched back-alley abortion — as so many partners, children, family, and friends did before Roe v Wade — or to a long prison sentence.
Reproductive rights are not only women’s issues — they benefit men, too. We don’t say that often enough.
That's not said often by the pro-abortion side because it’s a shameful thing to admit. Pro-lifers have recognized for decades that abortion is great for men who like to sleep around and use women. OF COURSE men like that would support abortion for their own selfish reasons, it lets them off the hook so they don’t have to worry about being tied down or having to support a baby when they don’t want to wear condoms.
They went back to Manhattan “where Liz could undergo a safe, legal abortion” at Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Health Center. Actually, it is not very safe - on Friday that location hospitalized their 7th woman in 16 weeks, bringing the total number of botched abortions requiring hospitalization to at least 20 in a little more than 2 years.
Keelty praised Liz for “vocally and publicly sharing” her story on her own site. But, he said:
With her consent, it’s my story, too... While millions of women have benefitted from safe, legal abortion, so have millions of men like me — though many of us might not know it. Nearly one in four women under age 45 have had an abortion.
In actuality the report he based that last claim on says, “If the 2014 age-specific abortion rates prevail, 24% of women aged 15 to 44 years in that year will have an abortion by age 45 years,” which is different and changes as abortion rates lower.
From this, Keelty concluded:
So, gentlemen, there’s a fair-to-good chance that you, too, have benefited from the right to reproductive choice…
Thanks to the state of Utah, we know our baby would have been due any day now, had Liz chosen (or been forced) to carry the pregnancy to term. She and I could be overhauling our lives to accommodate the child we never wanted. Instead, thanks to the availability of safe, legal abortion, we are both free to pursue the lives we choose.
Apparently he thinks this has never occurred to anyone before and that men oppose abortion not realizing how it affects them. Little does he know that many men are acutely aware of how abortion negatively affects them and they grieve over the decision to kill their child, whether they were involved in it or not, every day.
(If you are seeking help and healing from the pain of abortion, please check out Rachel's Vineyard and PATH - Post Abortion Treatment and Healing, both of which have sections for men.)
“father’s” groups are fake liberal fronts.
Johnboy Edwards won the “man of the year” award in 2008 as he was dodging reporters’ questions about his bastard lovechild from an affair. And Hulk Hogan was on the dais with him (at the time Mr. Hogan was having an affair with his daughter’s friend).
“The RIGHT to LIFE, liberty, and
the persuit of happiness.
It can’t possibly get any clearer.
Accident or not, that baby was a
human being. To put ones’ personal
inconveniences to the forefront
of innocent life is an abomination.
There is no benefit and they are not free. They are still slaves to sin.
I wonder what his future children will think someday when they read that article? I wonder how he will feel some day when he holds his first liveborn child?
Odds are that webpage won’t even exist in 20 years. down the memory hole.
Of course it’s all about convenience. We never had a doubt.
I sincerely doubt that every woman who has an abortion is able to prove who the father is. Very few men would volunteer to be a dad to a baby-on-the-way that they know isn’t theirs. The truth shall set you free...
(Drum roll)...”Casanova, you are NOT the father!”
Arguably, legal abortion “benefits” men far more than it does women. It enables men to live a playboy lifestyle and avoid ever having to take responsibility for a child. Meanwhile, women pay the price both physically and mentally. Women who have to deal with premature birth or miscarriage of a child they decided to have alive, women who can end up unable to conceive, women who suddenly come face to face with the fact that they killed their own baby for trivial “reasons” when they come across any of the numerous guides to pregnancy that describe fetal development or have an ultrasound of a baby the same age as the one they killed.
Abortion is not and never was about women’s rights.
Sure helps deadbeats evade their responsibilities...
Life is less often like an organized road-map that we lay out and follow, and more often a conglomeration of roads taken as they are encountered, those encounters driven either by chance or a directly attributable personal choice or action.
People make choices. Women often make choices to spread their legs and allow unprotected sexual activity with men, and men make choices to go between those legs and have unprotected sexual activity with women.
Those are choices people make. We aren’t beasts that copulate only because instinct tells us we have to do it. We have a choice in the matter.
For centuries, a man confronted with that choice of having unprotected sex with a woman was expected by most cultures to have responsibility in some way for any children resulting from that encounter.
Over time, cultural mores were established, and laws were made to protect women overall from the predations of men who wanted the sexual activity without the responsibility.
Women were encouraged not to have sexual relationships with men outside of marriage at the risk of shame and an unsupported pregnancy.
Men were encouraged not to have sexual relations with women outside of marriage that would result in pregnancy.
Women were encouraged not to have sex, and men were encouraged to have protected sex if they did. Men were also expected morally, culturally, and legally to provide for any child resulting that union.
These were all things, attitudes, penalties, recrimination, shame, that were all put in place with the ostensible end of protecting women from the predations of men. It wasn’t perfect
Between 1950 and 1980, this entire substructure was turned on its head. As Phyllis Schlafly outlined often in her campaigns against the Equal Rights Amendment, it wasn’t good for women because it destroyed the protections for women, as imperfect as they were, that had been built by centuries of experience.
But even though the ERA was never passed, cultural changes acted as if it had, and that left abortion as the only protection. Which is a horrible outcome.
Reading this linked article angers me, because it assumes that men can readily reject any of the responsibilities for their actions and that abortion is GOOD because it allows them to do it.
See my post above, the protections (albiet clumsy and often imperfect ones) built by society over centuries were swept away by modern society, leaving abortion as the only remedy to an unwanted pregnancy.
As a man, I find it extremely offensive to see them market abortion towards guys. I understand them marketing it towards women, because even with all the other historical cultural norms in place, she would bear the greater burden because history is full of men who would not accept responsibility even with all the weight of cultural reprobation behind it, so she was left holding the bag.
In this case, they are saying to men “Hey Guys! Do whatever you want! It can be fixed by abortion at the drop of a hat at any time up to birth, and even after birth in some cases!”
This piece actually markets it that way.
More fake lib groups. A$$holes. Do they think EVERYONE in the US is an idiot?
Oops, stupid question. Of course they do.
Right. Because ADOPTION is so out of the question.
The self-absorption is palpable.
That’s great. The money men would have to pay for child support can now be used for booze and women. Never mind the happiness teaching their kids to toss a ball. Of course, all that would have been avoided if men didn’t whine about having to put on a condom.
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Andrea Dworkin
Well said. Exactly.
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