In startling news today, doctors in Missouri are reporting another confirmed pregnancy in a genetically male human—the latest in a small but growing cluster.
In other words, as I’ve said here before, if men had to go through nine months of pregnancy, an excruciating and sometimes deadly birth, and then be responsible for another person 24/7 for the foreseeable future, there’d be no question about their right to opt out. And no qualms about it either.
Abril displays images of ad hoc abortion tools (knitting needles, coat hangers) along with photos and text that tell the stories of women who needed abortions in places where getting one was illegal. Meanwhile, a television set on a table in the center of her space plays the soundtrack: a continuous loop of men in power justifying the illegality. Donald Trump is there, advocating “some form of punishment” for the aborting woman, along with former Republican Congressman Todd Akin defending a “no exceptions” policy because, “if it’s a legitmate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
“I think five years from now we’ll realize that Roe v. Wade was slowly overturned without it ever making a big headline,” Scheidler said. v
