Twenty-nineteen marks my twentieth year of vocational opposition to abortion. I began with The Center for Bio-ethical Reform, where much of my time was spent on college campuses. I spent almost half of my first year (1999) on the road. It began in Florida and ended in Washington state—but wherever we took the Genocide Awareness Project, there was one particular leaflet that seemed to follow us around. I haven’t seen it in a decade or more, but it pictured a group of curmudgeonly old men and read, “77% of anti-abortion leaders are men. 100% of them will never get pregnant.” Never mind the audacity of suggesting that men can’t get pregnant or the failure to cite a source for the initial claim. Neither transgression could keep abortion-rights advocates from distributing those flyers with glee.
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The “Patriarchy” Demands Abortion
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Twenty-nineteen marks my twentieth year of vocational opposition to abortion. I began with The Center for Bio-ethical Reform, where much of my time was spent on college campuses. I spent almost half of my first year (1999) on the road. It began in Florida and ended in Washington state—but wherever we took the Genocide Awareness Project, there was one particular leaflet that seemed to follow us around. I haven’t seen it in a decade or more, but it pictured a group of curmudgeonly old men and read, “77% of anti-abortion leaders are men. 100% of them will never get pregnant.” Never mind the audacity of suggesting that men can’t get pregnant or the failure to cite a source for the initial claim. Neither transgression could keep abortion-rights advocates from distributing those flyers with glee.