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Old 03-30-2006, 02:07 PM   #138
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But are you saying that, being men, our opinions are somehow less valid? Because that is honestly how it sounds. Otherwise, I'm not sure what the point of bringing sex into it was.
I didn't say your opinion was less valid. I said that you simply don't know what a woman goes through when deciding to/after an abortion. The male perspective is unique and different than the female.

The comment was in regards to feeling differently about it being 'a clump of cells' after going through an abortion. A man would never know the way a woman's body is forced to readjust to not being pregnant again, the emptiness that many women claim to feel after an abortion. If a man has come to terms with the abortion beforehand considering it not human, he likely won't change his mind after. He doesn't feel that emptiness. But for women, many of them realize once it's done that it wasn't just a part of them. That's all.

IMO, a man's opinion needs to be taken into more consideration in many areas. For example, if the man really wants it, and is willing to raise it himself. Or if the man doesn't want it and would prefer an abortion as in the present 'Roe vs. Wade for men' case. However, a man will never experience himself the physiological/mental changes a woman goes through before, during, and after an abortion. So it's difficult for them to have an accurate assessment of that aspect.
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