blackbishop

Here's the thing, sweet cheeks. First, forcing every 18-year-old man to undergo surgery is a spectacularly deranged proposition, and calling vasectomies "reversible" doesn't magically make them temporary birth control. Reversal is not guaranteed. But let's address the enormous, screaming elephant in the room. The overwhelming majority of abortions follow pregnancies resulting from consensual sexual activity. Even the Guttmacher Institute's research has found that rape accounts for a small minority of reported reasons for abortion. Like 1 percent territory, toots. People who make arguments like yours seem to believe pregnancy is something women catch like the goddamned flu. One minute you're walking through Walmart, minding your own business, and suddenly ACHOO! PREGNANT! Nobody knows how it happened! Medical science is baffled! See, I have this strange, apparently revolutionary belief, possibly stemming from the fact that I AM A WOMAN, that women possess something called AGENCY. We can make decisions! We can establish boundaries! We can decide who gets to put their penis inside us, and under what circumstances! And if we don't want to become pregnant, there are a number of options available: Don't let men ejaculate inside you. Use contraception, and use it PROPERLY. Enjoy any of the approximately ELEVENTY BILLION other ways human beings can give each other sexual pleasure without engaging in intercourse. None of these methods requires a government official to show up at a young man's house with a scalpel and a court order. Now, obviously, contraception can fail. Sexual assault exists. There are circumstances in which women have no meaningful choice whatsoever. Those are real issues deserving serious consideration. Pretending that women are helpless passengers in their own reproductive lives, utterly incapable of making decisions about sex, is not the magnificent feminist argument you apparently think it is. Women have agency. Men have agency. Both have responsibilities. Bodily autonomy doesn't become an optional extra just because the person whose body you want to control happens to have testicles. You don't defend one person's rights by demanding that the government forcibly operate on someone else. You're calling for authoritarian lunacy while wearing a cheap feminist Halloween costume. Frankly, I think women deserve a hell of a lot more credit than you're giving us.