Kase Wickman (’10) writes for the September 8, 2010, edition of the Riverfront Times (St. Louis) on how abortion activists increasingly recognize the role men play in women’s pregnancy decisions:
Both [sides of the abortion debate] are finally recognizing what experts have always known: Men are affected by abortion. Both sides spout the same statistics—50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade in 1973, and one in three women have abortions before age 40. Both profess the goal of helping men.
Their interpretations of the statistics and what constitutes “help,” however, differ dramatically.
Where pro-choicers see 50 million men relieved of the burden of caring for a child they hadn’t planned for, pro-lifers see the 50 million Father’s Day cards those children will never send.
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