Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

Is this asking too much? We expect women to use their birth control perfectly, to remember to take the Pill daily, to keep up with doctor’s appointments and prescriptions. Why shouldn’t we expect men to use their birth control methods perfectly as well?

Men carry, abort, suffer complications from, labor, deliver, and die from 0 percent of unwanted pregnancies. Men can and do walk out on pregnancies. Women cannot.

Motherhood is hard, and demanding it for others, while being unwilling to do it yourself, is not okay.

In every Q&A with a politician and every political debate where abortion is brought up, ask specific questions: What is your plan for preventing irresponsible ejaculations? Where are the programs for free, accessible birth control? Where are the statewide sex-ed programs that explain how dangerous sperm is? What should the legal consequences be for men who cause unwanted pregnancies?