{"id":45403,"date":"2014-01-22T04:59:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T09:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=45403"},"modified":"2014-01-22T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T00:09:10","slug":"dismantling-the-excuses-for-shaming-men-out-of-the-abortion-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dismantling-the-excuses-for-shaming-men-out-of-the-abortion-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Dismantling the excuses for shaming men out of the abortion debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-36766\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-right: 20px\" alt=\"man and woman pregnant\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/man-and-woman-pregnant-215x300.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/man-and-woman-pregnant-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/man-and-woman-pregnant.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/>Considering the premise that men disproportionately dominate the pro-life movement is <a href=\"\/news\/pro-aborts-love-women-so-much-they-pretend-not-to-see-them-when-theyre-pro-life\/\">so undeniably, laughably false<\/a>, it\u2019s tempting to simply dismiss the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/crossexamined\/2014\/01\/why-is-it-always-men-advancing-the-pro-life-position-2\/\">conclusions Patheos blogger Bob Seidensticker draws<\/a> from it about pro-lifers\u2019 alleged lack of fairness and understanding toward pregnant women. But it\u2019s a pervasive narrative that pro-aborts won\u2019t let a little thing like \u201cfacts\u201d interfere with, so it demands a thorough debunking whenever it rears its ugly head.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While ostensibly conceding that the merits of abortion arguments are what they are regardless of who\u2019s making them, Seidensticker still claims there\u2019s \u201can important point that is rarely acknowledged, since only a woman can have an abortion\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[O]ur 60-something male apologist will never, ever completely understand what it\u2019s like to be 15 and pregnant, faced with disapproving parents and ridicule from classmates, seeing her life plans crumbling around her, dealing with pro-lifers shouting \u201cmurder!\u201d at the suggestion of an abortion, and wondering how she\u2019s ever going to get her life back on track.<\/p>\n<p>If the male apologist wants to comment on the topic, that\u2019s fine, but a big dose of humility (and sympathy) would make his opinion easier to take.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right, because the situation never crosses our minds. Pro-life men don\u2019t have any women with such experiences in our lives. We don\u2019t consider, think about, discuss, read, or write things like <a href=\"\/news\/a-life-lost-and-a-life-saved\/\">this<\/a>, or <a href=\"\/news\/all-i-thought-i-wanted-was-a-healthy-baby\/\">this<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#q=%22my+pregnancy%22+site:lifesitenews.com\">this<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#q=%22my+abortion%22+site:lifenews.com\">this<\/a>. Nope. Uh-uh. Doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s telling that our analyst offers no examples of pro-life men displaying any such hubris. But we see this all the time. In lieu of anything resembling evidence, typically the <em>informed, responsible<\/em> pro-abort is to simply assume that someone who dares assert opposition to legal abortion cannot possibly have given all sides sincere, careful consideration\u2014that the mere act of opposing abortion constitutes the very disregard and arrogance they assail.<\/p>\n<p>So tell me, who is it that has a deficit in humility and sympathy?<\/p>\n<p>He next makes an analogy to Rob Portman, the Republican senator who famously dropped his opposition to same-sex marriage last year upon learning that his son was gay. \u201c[W]hy did it take a gay son to bring about this turnaround?\u201d Seidensticker asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maybe the Portman Effect is what we\u2019re seeing with male pro-lifers. They\u2019re not going to get pregnant, so it\u2019s easy to be pro-life. Any downsides from continuing an unwanted pregnancy don\u2019t directly affect them. Like Portman, they can\u2019t put themselves in the shoes of someone going through this unless it actually happens to them. As men, it never will.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they would see things differently if their own 15-year-old daughter got pregnant. (That\u2019d be a great study: look at pro-life parents of teen girls with an unwanted pregnancy and see how many insisted that the same rules applied to their kid vs. how many rationalized that an exception was necessary, just in this case.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, you mean like, say, the Palin family? You\u2019ll note that Sarah\u2019s pregnancy with a Down syndrome son and Bristol\u2019s unplanned out-of-wedlock pregnancy <a href=\"\/news\/the-real-war-on-women-is-a-civil-war\/\">haven&#8217;t exactly inspired<\/a> pro-aborts to treat them with a bit more \u201chumility and sympathy.\u201d When was the last time you heard an abortion defender say, <em>I may not like Sarah Palin, but at least she\u2019s actually walked the walk, so I\u2019ll listen to what she thinks about abortion with an open mind<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>And while it\u2019s true that personal experience should be considered (albeit a banal point, since it was never in dispute), this is a good opportunity to point out that it can be a double-edged sword.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a police officer who relishes cracking down on DUIs until it\u2019s his teenage son drunk behind the wheel. Naturally, the effect punishment would have on his son\u2019s future would be far more prominent in his reaction than the futures of strangers\u2019 kids. So the empathetic choice to pull some strings and make the charge go away must be the correct one, right?<\/p>\n<p>Of course not. Personal investment in a situation is at least as likely to cloud our judgment as it is to illuminate it, to tempt us into ignoring what we know deep down is right because we lack the fortitude to say no to someone close to us. And when the emotional blinders and incentives to rationalize are as high as they are in abortion, that&#8217;s precisely when firm, outside objectivity is <em>most<\/em> needed.<\/p>\n<p>The anguished pregnant teen Bob Seidensticker asks us to consider naturally deserves pro-lifers\u2019 sympathy and support (not that pro-aborts <a href=\"\/news\/crisis-pregnancy-centers-and-pro-choice-hypocrisy\/\">will ever give us credit for it<\/a>, but that\u2019s another tangent). But the injustice of an unborn baby\u2019s intentional destruction is true regardless of his or her mother\u2019s emotional, familial, or economic circumstances, and pro-lifers will continue saying so, no matter how many pretexts to silence us pro-aborts send our way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering the premise that men disproportionately dominate the pro-life movement is so undeniably, laughably false, it\u2019s tempting to simply dismiss the conclusions Patheos blogger Bob Seidensticker draws from it about pro-lifers\u2019 alleged lack of fairness and understanding toward pregnant women. But it\u2019s a pervasive narrative that pro-aborts won\u2019t let a little thing like \u201cfacts\u201d interfere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":36766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dismantling the excuses for shaming men out of the abortion debate - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dismantling-the-excuses-for-shaming-men-out-of-the-abortion-debate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dismantling the excuses for shaming men out of the abortion debate - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Considering the premise that men disproportionately dominate the pro-life movement is so undeniably, laughably false, it\u2019s tempting to simply dismiss the conclusions Patheos blogger Bob Seidensticker draws from it about pro-lifers\u2019 alleged lack of fairness and understanding toward pregnant women. 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