Posted on 07/31/2024 6:40:36 PM PDT by Morgana
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joined a “White Dudes for Harris” fundraising call in an effort to raise money for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, during which the subject of abortion was unsurprisingly mentioned. But what was perhaps less expected were some of the remarks made by Buttigieg.
During the call, which – according to the New York Times – was attended by over 20,000 men, Buttigieg promoted the frequently echoed ‘abortion-as-freedom’ message. “I’m so glad that she has made freedom the theme of her campaign because in so many ways, that’s what is at stake,” Buttigieg began. “And yes, women’s freedom is Exhibit A, after Donald Trump demolished the right to choose. But of course, men are also more free in a country where we have a president who stands up for things like access to abortion care. Men are more free.”
Abortion has often benefitted dishonorable men at the expense of women. It allows them to enjoy sex without consequences, leaving women to navigate the systemic injustices pregnant women face alone (many which lead women to think abortion is their best, or only, option), if they resist the father’s desire for an abortion. Abortion allows certain types of men to use women for pleasure and then throw them away if they, and the children who are created, suddenly become inconvenient.
And Buttigieg is somewhat correct; abortion does give men a certain liberty — one that comes at the expense of women and certainly at the expense of the child’s life. But one must ask: is it truly freedom if the means to obtain it is to perpetuate an injustice (the abandonment of a woman and the death of a child) against another individual or multiple individuals?
The majority of abortions in the United States — about 87% — are obtained by unmarried women. And a national study on forced/coerced abortion in America found that 64% of women who obtained abortions felt pressured, and sometimes even experienced violent coercion, to undergo the procedure. In that study, a former abortion facility security guard’s testimony before the Massachusetts legislature was cited, in which he said that women were frequently brought in by the men pressuring and coercing them into the abortion, so they could make sure the women went through with the procedures.
Further research published by the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons found that 73.8% of women have experienced “at least subtle forms of pressure” to abort.
But what isn’t often discussed is that many men never wanted their children aborted in the first place. Many men are hurting either because they regret pressuring their past partners into abortion, or because their children were aborted despite their desire to protect the woman with whom they were involved, along with their child. These men know that abortion didn’t bring them “freedom.” It brought them heartbreak and regret.
Tragically, abortion does allow certain men to do injustice to women and their own children, should they so choose to exercise their liberty in such a manner. It’s a problem that has been around for a very, very long time.
As Susan B. Anthony famously said (emphasis added), “Guilty? Yes, no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh! Thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation which impels her to the crime.”
Mr. Buttigieg:
Why are men “more free” if abortion is allowed?
What are men “more free” from if abortion is allowed?
What are men “more free” to do if abortion is allowed?
paying for a live kid for 18 years
I think somebody on the left will have to take Pete aside and tell him to shut his fricken’ yapper. The fact that easy abortion is a tremendous ‘benefit” to irresponsible men - letting them off the financial and fatherly burden of supporting a child for 18+ years - is not to be said out loud.
Touche. Beat me to it.
Petey wouldn’t say that....would he?
No thank you.
‘Men are more free’ when their preborn children can be killed>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
This is the thinking of a Sodomite.
Men are free when they are willing to fight and die for it.
Sodomites do not think in the way a patriot would.
My friends be honest(and real). Aren’t you glad he’s out there?
Pete Buttigieg: ‘Men are more free’ when their preborn children can be killed
What does he care?
(My understanding is Unix regular expressions have evolved since I last had to deal with them decades ago. I should dig back into that, to see if I can concoct one that matches Buttigieg and Buttplug, and nothing else. Should be doable.)
..... Well ... using that Logic .... Wouldn't men and women be much more freer if they could also kill their Post Born Children too????
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This has always been at the core of this issue.
We’d all be FAR more free if we could kill leftists without consequence. I wonder what “Mayor Pete” would have to say about that?
I am starting to think he will be Commielas running mate.
The both of them are “red diaper doper babies”.
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I bet Little Pete Bootygag and his husband are glad they didn’t get an abortion they are always professing their love for their children. OH Wait I guess they didn’t have a chance to abort since their both Men.
So says the degenerate who performs sodomy and has dosomy performed on him maybe on a daily basis.
No one could make this stuff up. It writes itself.
This is what a collapsed Satanist society looks like.
Child-killing, weed & sloth. Not even remotely a nation with God.
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