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THE ULTIMATE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN A BORT ION THE ULTIMATE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN A B O R T IO N MEN STARTED IT. MEN OPPRESS WITH IT. MEN CAN END IT. B R I A N E . F I S H E R Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women © Brian E. Fisher 2013 All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles. Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. ISBN-13: 978-0-9891819-0-7 Jacket and Interior Design: Roark Creative, roarkcreative.com Published by Online for Life Printed in the United States of America www.onlineforlife.org Online for Life P.O. Box 5052 Frisco, TX 75035 CONTENTS 7 Acknowledgements 9 Introduction “Your Book Title Makes No Sense” 17 Chapter 1 Just a Women’s Issue? 31 Chapter 2 Our Laws Are Always Right … Right? MEN STARTED IT 39 Chapter 3 A Long History of Men Behaving Badly 49 Chapter 4 A Woman’s Right – Made Legal by Men MEN OPPRESS WITH IT 71 Chapter 5 Weeding the Garden 91 Chapter 6 “I’ll Still Love You in the Morning” 99 Chapter 7 Educated Choice? 109 Chapter 8 It’s “Safe” and “Rare”? MEN CAN END IT 133 Chapter 9 The Man Void 159 Chapter 10 Men Can End It 183 Resources 185 Endnotes 205 Index ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am once again indebted to John Aman for his excellent and diligent work as researcher, editor, collaborator, criticizer, and encourager. This book is far better because of his passion and thoughtful input. To Jessica, Caleb, and Zach, for their patience and understanding, as husband and father once again spent obscene amounts of time at home typing furiously behind a computer. To the Directors, Advisory Board, and selless donors of Online for Life, for their staunch support of our work. To the OFL staff: Jeff Bradford, Tim Gerwing, Tommy Swanson, Sean Martin, Danielle Teel, Kari Buddenberg, Olga Figueroa, Barry Moerschell, and Ben Woodard, for insight, input, and hard work to print and distribute this book. And to the committed group of OFL volunteers, you have my deepest gratitude for your service. To those contributors who courageously shared their abortion stories with me—thank you for your transparency and willingness to see others positively impacted by your experiences. 7 INTRODUCTION “yOUR BOOK TITLE MAKES NO SENSE” Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women. That’s a ridiculous title, isn’t it? Abortion doesn’t exploit women—it empowers them. Abortion is a legal right for women that permits them to do whatever they want with their own bodies. Abortion has freed women from the bonds of male dominance and biological slavery. It has narrowed the gender gap and elevated the value and role of women in American society. Abortion is choice, and choice is power. Men Started It. Men Oppress With It. Men Can End It. And what’s this about men? They use abortion to oppress women? That’s just crazy. Why would men promote abortion? They don’t even have the legal right to inluence the abortion decision. Socially, they aren’t even really allowed to talk about it. We are told that abortion has nothing to do with men. It is a huge step forward for women’s rights. 9 ABORTION: THE ULTIMATE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN There are three very good reasons why this should be true: 1. Abortion is legal in the United States, and that law empowers women. The landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case effectively stripped men of any legal right to protect or terminate the life of a child in the womb. The Supreme Court decided the right to abort rests solely with women. It found that right in either the Fourteenth or the Ninth Amendment.1 What it didn’t ind was any legal authority for a father to have a say about the fate of his offspring. In two subsequent abortion cases, the Court threw out a law requiring the husband’s consent to his wife’s abortion and another mandating that he be notiied when his wife was on her way to an abortion facility. As the Court put it in the latter case, “[I]t cannot be claimed that the father’s interest in the fetus’ welfare is equal to the mother’s protected liberty....”2 So far as the Court is concerned, men have no rights whatsoever with respect to their progeny. The so-called right to privacy, as the Court said in Roe, “is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy”3—and to terminate the father’s rights, as well. 2. Abortion is a surgical procedure that, for obvious reasons, only involves the female body. Because women are entrusted with providing sustenance and proper living conditions for a developing, in utero human being, any changes to that process must be carried out within the woman’s body. Abortion is a surgical procedure that cannot be performed on men. Thus, men should not be able to dictate whether or not the surgical procedure is performed on women. 3. In America today, 40 percent of all births are out of wedlock.4 With 24 percent of mothers raising kids without a father present,5 women are increasingly responsible not only for carrying a child during pregnancy—but for fully providing 10