Posted on 05/19/2019 1:36:08 PM PDT by Ennis85
Most of the US state laws banning or severely restricting access to abortions have been voted on by male politicians. Should men have the right to rule on an issue that impacts women so intimately?
The corridors leading up to the Alabama Senate are lined with black-and-white photographs of past legislative sessions - each framed poster like a yearbook page from a distinctly male-only school.
But inside the dim public gallery, looking down onto the Senate floor, many of the seats are filled by women. They are young and old, some in suits and some in bright shirts with pro-choice slogans emblazoned across the front.
They watch the drama play out in the chamber below, as a handful of Democrats and an even smaller number of women make clear their outrage over the abortion ban that will pass in just a few hours, and in a day, will become law.
The activists next to me in the gallery laugh and gasp with each argument and reply. Some shout an 'Amen!' in agreement as the debate continues.
When a female lawmaker steps up to the microphone, she says: We do not police men's bodies the way we police women's - and this decision about an issue concerning women so intimately is being made almost entirely by men.
Though women make up 51% of Alabama's population, its lawmakers are 85% male. There are only four women in the 35-seat Alabama Senate, and they are all Democrats.
Outside the stark white walls of the State House on Tuesday night, however, women were in the majority. Groups of pro-choice supporters chanted for hours in the courtyard, holding signs calling for abortion freedoms, for women alone to decide what happens to their own bodies.
Delaney Burlingame, one of the young pro-choice activists
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Only if they are pro-life.
The baby is 50/50....Decisions should be 50/50 also.
They want to discriminate by sex?
Perhaps many would be for abortion so as to get out of paying child support, if they thought that far ahead. In my opinion, it is a very rare man that would be pro-life if the experience were real & not merely a question. If you have no say, you have no guilt for the murder.
Democrats believe America would be a better place if more women held high positions in government. So why aren’t Democrats applauding Donald Trump for appointing more women judges to our courts?
Yeah but only when it was the men who decided Roe vs Wade...
“...get out of paying child support...”
Of course self interest would drive men to say abortion is A-okay. That is why Hedonistic men like Hugh Hefner championed abortion. It takes higher ethics to oppose abortion. Tim Tebow is pro-life because Tim Tebow considers morals and God and right and wrong. Things that are very foreign to Gloria Steinem, Hillary Clinton, and Rachel Maddow.
The pro-life movement was largely led by women since Roe vs. Wade with leaders like Nellie Gray and Phyllis Schlafly.
DALLAS, TX—Local man Eric Spolar attempted to voice his opinion on abortion to a coworker Thursday. Unfortunately, he was informed that since he is a man, he does not get to have an opinion on killing babies.
So, Spolar came up with a brilliant solution...
Heh heh, love the Babylon Bee, better than The Onion.
“Rare men” and “rare women” are both needed, who will rather marry (as applicable) rather than further a mistake.
What does gender have to do with the morality of killing pre-natal babies?
“Most of the US state laws banning or severely restricting access to abortions have been voted on by male politicians. Should men have the right to rule on an issue that impacts women so intimately?”
If women are taking taxpayer money to have abortions, then yes, whoever the politicians are have a decision. Can’t have it both ways.
How about an appointed guardian to speak for the unborn child?
Morbid, yet oddly satisfying.
Yes
If you don’t believe in slavery, don’t own one.
Notice how when they get (or manufacture) enough votes to hold a majority in Congress or a state house its a mandate (easy there, Ebola, it’s a political term) for their policies, but if Republicans are the majority, there’s suddenly all these extra steps, like checking between the legs, before they get to pass laws?
Both genders can be victims of abortion.
Which of the many of genders are allowed to have an opinion on which of the many topics again? One needs spreadsheets just to keep up with the BS.
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