Ken Burch
1 min readMar 27, 2020

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It’s meaningless to say that “(cis)men aren’t allowed to have abortions” when cis-men never actually need them. It’s like saying that women aren’t allowed to have vasectomies-the statement is medically accurate, but irrelevant.

The actions which cause pregnancies aren’t always in a woman’s control-contraception fails, men force themselves on women-and we can’t decently reduce the whole thing to “if you don’t want to get pregnant, don’t have sex”, because it isn’t as simple as that.

And we can’t just ban abortion because it is not the business of any cis-male person whether a woman has that procedure or not, and because there is no way a society that did ban that procedure would ever be one in which women lived as free human beings.

It’s more than enough that those cis-women who oppose abortions have the right to not have one themselves. And the abortion rate has been voluntarily declining for decades anyway, so it should be left at that.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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