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    voteforme: I feel like I say this to someone at least once a week: The world is horribly, unfairly skewed in favor of men. Why are women so eager to give up on... more »
    ModernDemagogue2: This has nothing to do with abortion. This has to do with sex and sexual relationships. Simply, in our culture in this day and age, people engage in s... more »
    Valkyrie607: Why should a dude pay child support for his child, even if he wanted the mother to get an abortion? Because doing otherwise--refusing to support the... more »
    bigduke: But but but, Men already have a choice! Ya see, we are very capable of proving that sex has a causal relationship to pregnancy. A man can "choos... more »
    DangerMouse: But then any man who didn't want to pay child support would just say they wanted the woman to have an abortion and the child would get nothing.... more »
    Luckwouldhaveit: What I hate about this argument - that men should have some influence in the abortion decision - is that it ignores the plain face that me DO have som... more »
    PantherShade: I've had this discussion with others on several occasions, and I can only comment on my own opinions. A woman should have 100% say over whether she c... more »
    schweppes: I think it's difficult. Honestly, there are very few arguments as to why men don't get a unilateral, legally-supported right to denounce their parent... more »
    Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole: Andrew Sullivan is an ignorant piece of shit making a dishonest argument. Pro choice progressives want women to have a choice legally, and consider h... more »
    MizJenkins: I have to call bullshit on all the backlash here. The author is right, women can't have it both ways. Gender equality does not mean replacing one doub... more »
    LawFairy: I think the problem is that these men don't understand that the "absolute right" thing is a MARGINAL descriptor. In other words, it's only going to m... more »
    SudiptiEurymachus: I am so sick of men trying to co-opt the "aren't progressive relationships about equality" argument into an issue that will never center around them d... more »
    femputer: I was talking with the manputer the other night about the possibility of men's BC pills. I can't wait 'till they're out there so I can hear the lame ... more »
    tankearae: I've probably said it before, I'll say it again: JUST SAY NO TO SEX WITH PRO LIFERS! With that, I shall return to my little corner of hell. [AND YES... more »
    queenieinmanhattan: The final -choice- is hers alone, but that doesn't preclude dialogue, or even argument, tantrums, graphs, etc. That last item is clearly how such a d... more »
    Mariah W Warnock-Graham: Condoms have a fail rate, ladies. If you figure how often that is multiplied by how many times you are have unmarried sex, it's actually pretty likely... more »
    Callinectes: Amazing logic. Really. I just hope my future boyfriends know who to blame when I insist on soliciting their input on tampons (applicator or no appli... more »
    tiredfairy: I think the larger part of the discussion that the original article fails to recognize, is that because of serious gender disadvantages and inequaliti... more »
    Rooo sez BISH PLZ: "In a sublimely passive-aggressive piece"*adores you for this alone* more »
    inabook: I do wish there was a way men could renounce all claims to the future kid/ kid they found out about after its born and not have to pay child support. ... more »
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    Blogger: How Abortion Rights Make Bad Boyfriends

    Hot on the heels of Byard Duncan's "abortion party" article inquiring about the proper role of men in abortion, Conor Friedersdorf responds that if women want men to help with child-rearing, they should let them help decide about abortion too. More »