Abortion/Adoption/Birth Rights

[KillerGremlin]

I'd say I agree with you. The strong rallying around abortion is indeed a reaction to extreme male-domination. It gave/gives females a platform to defend their birth rights.

My legal or philosophical feeling on this is that in a consensual or mutual sexual relationship (so no coercion or power inequity or forced sexual experience or rape, etc.) I think both parties should have a say in the birth issue. And that should be extended to the child-to-be but we live in a less than perfect society so I'll leave the 'ethics of abortion' debate out of this here thread.

One observation I'm making in my study of humans is that we have a total lack of responsibility for sex. I would say sex is the number one problem with humans....followed by acts of violence and aggression.

[Typhoid]

The problem with feminists in the first place (I mean this in all seriousness, though it lacks tact) is that they don't want equality, they want the power men had from the turn of the century. The "I can rule the world, because I'm a woman" mentality. Clearly I'm not talking the "Yay I'm proud to be a woman" feminists, but the "Don't hold the door for me, I can do it myself/I spell 'women' with a 'y'" feminists.


I don't think it should entirely be up to the woman. At all. 50%. If she re-produced A-sexually (or if she was raped), then the decision is hers, and hers alone.

However, since a penis was thrust into her god-willing vagina, and sperm from said penis broke through her egg, it is not just up to her anymore. Her vagina, their fetus.