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I believe that Men should have a right to choose, too. The point that most sticks in my craw, however, is that in ten years, it never seems to have occurred to NCM, or Mr. Feit, that Their best case lay in supporting abortion rights for women. Because I just have to laugh tragically when I read that women still have that right. We don't: in most states, access to abortion has already been so curtailed that legal abortion is only easily obtainable by women with enough money to travel or bribe.
The NCM has invited the disdain of women by worrying more about the financial costs to the Father of rearing an unwanted child, then with the public, social, logistical, emotional, legal, AND financial (not in any specific order) burden on the mother and unwanted child. For ten years, They've sat on the sidelines and watched silently while a woman's right to choose has been slowly and systematically eroded. Now They are whining that women haven't jumped in to support Their cause. Perhaps Their credibility would be improved if They used some of Their 15 minutes of fame to show some solidarity, and publically champion women's right to choose, not just Their own.
Duh.
