I consider the question of birth control to not be a gender based conversation, or a discussion of women’s reproductive rights, as I don’t think having children is solely a woman’s responsibility. Someone else is likely involved when a woman gets pregnant. They don’t get a free pass from my draconian judgements about using birth control.
I don’t think I’ve told a woman anything, or women anything… Can you point to the spot that I did that? I’m happy to correct that if I’m wrong. I’ve advocated shagging and breeding responsibly, and its something I advocated for both sexes equally, and I think consistently. Certainly its the way I think of the issue. If you come from a perspective that having children is strictly something women do, and do alone, that would be different.
One point of contention we might have is that I think the rights of children to have good environments trump the rights of parents to reproduce. I think children have the right to responsible guardians, and to being taken care of. I mean… whats the alternative? I also hold people responsible for having children responsibly, and doing right by them. In that, I guess I might be telling women how they should be in the world, but I’m also telling men how to be in the world as well… not that I’m deluded enough to think that telling anyone anything makes any difference.
I appreciate the debate. I’ve learned quite a bit from it.
