"Abortion Hurts Men" Campaign Continuing
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
October 28, 2011 - 11:50am (Print)
Between new billboards and new public speakers, it's becoming more clear that the next wave of the anti-choice war is to recruit men to talk their partners out of abortions.
Which is why this new "study" is no shock, and probably the first of many to be released in the next year.
Via National Right to Life News:
“…[T]his study adds new depth to our understanding of this neglected population. The recurring meaning of abortion for the men in this study was that of profound loss and a common reaction to that loss was anger. The men experienced significant, multiple losses related to relationships with their partners, their masculine identify, their self of self-esteem or self-worth, and fatherhood. For some men, the abortion raised issues related to disappointment in their own fathers as well as to perceptions of themselves as fathers. For all of the men, abortion entailed a much more complex loss than has generally been recognized.”
The authors freely admit the limitations—the number is small and is comprised of men “who self-identify as having been harmed by the experience.” They call for more investigation. But they also make a very important statement:
“This may or may not represent a minority of men, since the prevalence of men who experience significant psychological sequelae after abortion is not known at this time.”
Yet another avenue to cutting off a woman's right to choose -- partner coerced pregnancy. Ironic, since the most recent set of state restrictions pushed by the anti-choice advocates were reminding a woman that it is illegal for a partner to coerce you into ending a pregnancy.
But it's only coercion if you are being talked out of motherhood, as anti-choicers in South Dakota have proven over and over again.
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The recurring meaning of abortion for the men in this study was that of profound loss and a common reaction to that loss was anger.
Oddly enough, loss and rage are also the most common reactions men have to paying child support.
Indeed...and just imagine the "loss and rage" that will naturally follow if the lunatics are successful in their stated desire to return to the days of "shotgun" marriages.
~ My father was a southern Baptist preacher’s son, and a deacon and Sunday school teacher at my grandfather’s church. My father threw out my married teenage mothers birth control, my teenage mother then had me. When I was crying as a sick baby my father who used me to trap my submissive teenage mother in marriage beat my teenage mother in the face, her face gushed blood. Why? Because I was crying as a sick baby. These kind of men who want women and girls pregnant treat women and girls like shit! I know, I grew up with them. They make LIFE, toxic hell. ~
~ After my mother had me, which my manipulative, perverted, abusive father arranged (my little Christian mother did not know shit about reproduction or sex, she still doesn’t) me and my mother were trapped in misery and hell. Not that pro-forced birth men give a tiny damn about abused women and sexually abused little girls. All that matters is women, raped women, little girls, and raped little girls breed against their will to please men who cannot give birth and do not have to worry about being FORCED into doing it. ~
~ I wish my poor mother had aborted me. I wish my father had not meddled in my mothers reproduction like a sadomasochistic abusive pervert on his typical man power trip over a woman’s vagina and body. ~
~ It is not the vagina pain mongering pro-life men who have their genitals on the line. Pro-lifers treat women, little girls, abused women, abused little girls, raped women, and raped little girls like shit on the bottom of their women and little girl kicking cowboy boots. ~
~ Right to abuse women and little girls vaginas against their will News is just keeping with the same attitude that is heaped on women and little girls all over the world. Women and little girls vaginas, bodies, and lives owe men something at women and little girls physical and emotional discomfort to pleasure men. Pimps and penis rapist feel and think the same way. ~
~ Pro-lifers remind me so much of the rapist I grew up with. They have the exact same mentality. ~
Are they trying to claim that is 'science'? Place an ad asking for responses from men who are upset about abortion, and then have those men fill out a questionnaire, and then publish a paper stating, "men who say they are upset by abortion are upset by abortion! Could other men feel the same way? Nobody knows so probably yes!"
You could probably do a matched set of similar self-selecting sample studies about men who are upset women did NOT have abortions or men's mothers who are upset their son's girlfriends had abortion and women's mothers who are upset their daughters did NOT have abortions or even women who are upset because men talked them out of having abortions and then changed their minds at week 30 of the pregnancy, packed up and left town and were never heard from again.
Where was this "study" published? "The Journal of Pastoral Counseling", published by Iona College, a Catholic university founded by The Christian Brothers. Now there's an unbiased, neutral source of research!
The men experienced significant, multiple losses related to relationships with their partners, their masculine identify, their self of self-esteem or self-worth, and fatherhood.
Talk about some major insecurity there. I don't have the energy to begin to untangle the implications right now--maybe later. I feel like I'm staring at that knot from Maniac McGee.
