Michelle Goldberg makes the usual mistake of lumping abortion in with other population control strategies. To say that "abortion changed the world" is to have a very shallow understanding of why birth rates are going down.

Access to abortion is not a significant factor in bringing down the birth rate. What is important is education and access to contraception and sex education. When you get past the anti-abortion shouters, you will find that most self-identified pro-lifers are on board with these things.

Adding abortion to the mix just creates opposition, opposition which is unnecessary.

Maybe it's infanticide. But even if not, with legalized abortion the result would be the same -- in fact, the problem would be worse.

The termination of very young females (or, to rephrase it per the accepted lingo, potential females). Another argument against abortion, ridiculed in the early going, turns out to be true.

It all comes down to the fact that we expect men to "perform" in bed, whereas women can just "lie there".

A really drunk guy won't be able to "get it up". Therefore, by our double standards, he can't "have sex". It's not that this issue shows a bias against women -- it's just that when the shoe is on the other foot (or the drink is in the other hand), the issue just doesn't come up (ha ha).

(depressing how many haters post letters here!)

This is a typically thoughtful, needed post by Tracy and something worth considering. I've long felt that boys are not well served by sex education. It's too female-focused, and does not acknowledge the stereotypes and bad expectations that Tracy mentions. Or the fact that boys are hit with a rush of hormones that create a horniness that girls can only guess at (and won't experience themselves until they are in their late 30's, when it's a lot easier to handle and permissible to find an outlet for).

It's also important that the educator not come in "with an attitude" -- i.e., no "male feminists" please.

Pointing out that the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith used to be called (hundreds of years ago) "The Inquisition" makes as much sense as calling your typical U.S. federal judge a "slave handcuffer", because years and years ago it was the judge's job to "render" runaway slaves back to their owners.

As some of the comments show, Ms. Kissling has an amazing lack of understanding as to why someone might want to be a nun -- particularly since the position of women in the church is no worse now than it was back when more women went into the religious life. I expected a lot better from her.

She had a choice to rob a bank.

So we should make bank robbery legal?

I have a choice to beat my wife.

So we should make wife beating legal?

A guy has a choice to kill someone.

So we should make murder legal?

I can live in a society where wife-beating is legal, yet I choose not to beat my wife. Wife-beating to me is a morally repugnant act and I don't want to have that choice. I want to deny that choice to every man.

If you agree with me here, you are agreeing the "point" Sarah Hepola is trying to make is worthless.

Also, Hilton is the bigot. Prejean is not.

Good for her, I say.

That's why I read Broadsheet. The only feminist blog I know that tries to be fair to men, and does not toe any "official" feminist line. It does not deserve the hostility that often appears in the comments.

Good for Sarah for acknowledging that women enjoy freer sexuality and that this is unfair to men. I don't know if she's reading the signs right but I really do hope that male bisexuality becomes cool.

Jesus condemned divorce in each and every instance -- overruling Moses, who allowed divorce for "hardness of heart".

You can look it up. It only takes a minute.

You can call the Catholic Church bigoted, inconsistent, out of touch with reality, patriarchal . . . but you've overlooked the possibility that they're just trying to be faithful to Christ.

It's amazing how a woman can be in the ultimate nurturing situation -- being pregnant -- and before, during and after the pregnancy, with everyone else in her life, she is anything *but* nurturing.

I especially hate it when women fling out their breasts and nurse their babies five inches from my face as if to say, "SEE how nurturing I am!!" I've seen this done very ostentatiously at meetings.

this would be a better and more peaceful Earth.

Hope this "sex strike" works.

this would be a better and more peaceful Earth.

Hope this "sex strike" works.

1. It's about setting an example for the kids -- and if you don't think this is important, you probably don't have kids

2. Steroids have bad effects

3. Any game has rules without which the game becomes a grotesque farce. Why not allow ten-inch wide bats? Five-foot-wide gloves? Eliminate the balk rule? Allowing steroids would be another example. Think how grotesque the athletes will look in 20 years. And how necessary it will be for a kid to invest thousands or millions of dollars to pump up over the ages of 10 - 18 to have a shot at the big leagues

The last liberal on that court was Thurgood Marshall. Who was appointed in 1967. That's right, folks: no liberal has been appointed to that court in 42 years.