Contraception now = Abortion?

[Rapscallion]

So, where's my share?

Rapscallion

[Dreamstalker]

And let me tell you what......I am NOT aborting ANYTHING by preventing ovulation, preventing sperm from entering my cervix, and having my uterine lining be undesirable for a fetus.

Taking that thinking, then wouldn't abstinence be considered abortion? Yet the right-wingers champion that (abstinence as sex ed)... What also about all the women who for whatever reason are sterile (uterine lining unsuitable for an embryo)? Should they be accused of 'performing abortions'?

I'm also on the pill because I need to be, and my doc will confirm that. Nothing to do with preventing pregnancy (well, that's become a good reason, but it's not why I was put on it in the first place).

[RecoveringKinkoid]

If men could get pregnant, abortion, (and birth control) would be sacrament.

[blas87]

Oh please, RK, it'd be way more than that!

If men menstruated, pads would be government funded. Men would brag about who bled the most and the longest and the nastiest.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Actually, all the men would be taking 2 weeks off every month, due to not being able to stand pain.

[tropicsgoddess]

Actually, all the men would be taking 2 weeks off every month, due to not being able to stand pain.

That I'd like to see....and laugh at. (I look nice but I can be mean when I want to be)

[Pedersen]

Actually, all the men would be taking 2 weeks off every month, due to not being able to stand pain.

Actually, research has been done that shows that men and women have biologically different mechanisms for handling pain. All of it that I was able to find right now is locked up behind subscriptions, but I have read such reports as of several years ago.

The upshot of this is that, for severe pain, women's secondary pain handling mechanism kicks in, allowing the woman to deal with it better. Oh, and the reason this secondary mechanism doesn't work for men? It's based on estrogen, which men are in pretty short supply of

So, you're right: Biologically speaking, men are not as well equipped to handle pain as women.

[Rapscallion]

Oh please, RK, it'd be way more than that!

If men menstruated, pads would be government funded. Men would brag about who bled the most and the longest and the nastiest.

A commedian over here postulated the same thing. "Mates, I'm bleeding bad here. My pad's so thick it feels like I'm sitting on a brick!"

Rapscallion