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In reply to the discussion: "If men could get pregnant…" [View all]leeroysphitz
(10,462 posts)37. That isn't "what women do". That is what some women choose to do.
In my house I do all those chores and more. I enjoy the structure of housework and shuttling the kids. It's a good routine ruined only because I also work from home. My wife is now the main earner. She would laugh hearing you consign all other women to toil and drudgery.
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This opinion is faith-based, not evidence-based. More men than women are pro-choice.
Donald Ian Rankin
Apr 2013
#4
Most of the religious groups who lobby legislators are headed by men
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Apr 2013
#6
It seems unlikely to happen on average, given that it hasn't had that effect on women.
Donald Ian Rankin
Apr 2013
#9
You're assuming the standards they set for everyone else are the same as their own
Major Nikon
Apr 2013
#40
I think a majority of men are pro-choice, definitely in the last twenty years
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Apr 2013
#56
+1...Sadly, the right wing doesn't have a complete monopoly on faith based beliefs
abq e streeter
Apr 2013
#50
Or as my Gmom used to say "...birth control and abortion would be sacraments." n/t
woodsprite
Apr 2013
#10
No, not abortion clinics, it hurts. Morning after pills vended like condoms in the men's room.
freshwest
Apr 2013
#11
Like it or not most women don't CHOOSE to do 80% of household & child-rearing themselves
Triana
Apr 2013
#39
Nice little fantasy for feminist and pro-feminist progressives to feel self satisfied with, but
abq e streeter
Apr 2013
#28
Morning-after pills would come in a big snack bag, and leave orange residue on your fingers. nt
agracie
Apr 2013
#35
If men could get pregnant...we not have the words sibling, brother or sister.
TeamPooka
Apr 2013
#55