Over the last few weeks, several states have limited women from having abortions if they choose to. Even when the legislators were not doing that, it was still difficult for women to get one in those states because of the protestors outside and lack of clinics that can do it. It is our right to do with our bodies what we want, the same way it is for men.
In fact, W. Kamau Bell, who had just had a vasectomy, made a strong statement about it. He wrote, “When I went to end my ability to reproduce, there were no protesters. No 1 tried to talk me out of it, talked about God or murder, or made me get my wife’s approval. The surgery took 10 minutes & was covered by insurance. It should be that easy for women.” Amen!
Why does the government care so much about the fetus when it is in the woman and not when it is outside of her. Life is even more precious when it is born than while it is still in a woman’s womb. Over the weekend, I was reading about a fetus’ brain activity. Did you know not until it is 20 weeks that it can start to feel pain and it has fully developed sexual organs? That means these pro-lifers are supporting gender neutral babies up until then. I thought they were against that gender fluidity? They really need to make up their minds. They cannot have it both ways.
Seriously, they cannot make it so that a woman is forced to have a baby she does not want, then not give her the financial and mental support during and after it is born. If they want these babies so badly, then I say that women, who do want the babies they were forced to have, can drop them off at the state capitol building and let those legislators raise them. They are the ones that say every life is precious, so raise them. You want them, they are your responsibility.
If they think that every life is precious, then they should give every citizen free healthcare. They should be willing to open their doors to all the recent immigrants seeking asylum. They should want to ban all guns because they kill people including kids. However, they don’t think like that. They just pass laws banning abortions and have no plans with what to do with all of those extra babies.
I also think if the woman is forced to carry that baby for 9 months, then the baby daddy should be responsible for the next 18 years and counting. They do one night, and they need to do more. Especially if a woman’s uterus is not considered her own. The baby daddies need to be forced to take responsibility. See how fast the laws change back. But they won’t because they are wimps. That is why women are the stronger gender.
However, there are men who are strong and Bell is one of them. He revealed on his CNN show United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell this weekend, that he chose to get fixed because his wife has been taking the pill for 15 years and it was time that he did something to prevent pregnancies. After three kids, they said that they have enough. Good for him for putting his wife’s health first. Why is it our responsibility to prevent pregnancy? Men complain sex does not feel as good as with a condom. You try taking the pill every day at the same time and dealing with the side effects. I am having my monthly hormone headaches that I get because I am on the pill and they are worse than my normal migraines. Not only that it puts me at a higher risk to get breast cancer.
A vasectomy does none of that. I have another idea. All men who want to be sexually active, but don’t want to have kids, let’s force them to have vasectomies. Let’s make it a law. When they go in for their circumcisions (which prove to be healthier than not having one but that is another discussion), let’s neuter them. Then when they decide they want to have kids, they can get it reversed. Oh, and they still have to use condoms because they protect us against more than just pregnancy. They also prevent STIs (again another discussion for later).
OK, I will stop dreaming of a world when men stop telling me what I can and cannot do with my uterus and go back to caring about what celebs are doing!
