{"id":33741,"date":"2013-04-23T16:39:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=33741"},"modified":"2013-04-25T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T15:35:21","slug":"living-bro-choice-it-just-doesnt-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/living-bro-choice-it-just-doesnt-add-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Living “Bro-Choice”: It just doesn’t add up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"injustice<\/a>Recently, RH Reality Check published an article<\/a> about Choice USA’s new “bro-choice” campaign. According to Andrew Jenkins, this campaign is designed to “lift up the work young men are already doing to challenge gender oppression in their own communities, and we\u2019re recruiting more young men to do the same.” The article then tries to go through a host of issues men should be more outspoken about.<\/p>\n

Should men stand against rape and sexual violence? Should they speak out about sexual abuse, seek appropriate health care for themselves, make healthy sexual choices, and build strong families? Without a doubt, the answer is a resounding yes.<\/p>\n

However, Andrew Jenkins and Choice USA dance around one of the main issues at play – abortion. Very few would disagree that men should be involved with the issues listed above. Very few would ask a man who spoke out against rape to shut his mouth. Very few would call a man less of a man for working to build a strong family. Do more men need to be encouraged to do these things? Sure. But what does this have to do with abortion?<\/p>\n

Jenkins and Choice USA imply that it has a whole lot <\/em>to do with abortion. Now, only once in Jenkins’s article<\/a>, not once on the Bro-Choice page<\/a>, and not once in the Bro-Choice pledge<\/a> is the word “abortion” mentioned. Instead, a new favorite term – reproductive justice – is thrown around without a real explanation or definition. Here are the phrases and sentences that use “reproductive justice”:<\/p>\n