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AN UNPLEASANT IDEA FOR MEN

I am growing increasingly weary and impatient with the smirking, sanctimonious, shrieking of those who supposedly care about Life, in heartrending spasms of blaming women for unwanted pregnancies.

Let me introduce myself. I am a retired Pediatrician and, also a retired Catholic. In this little essay I do not intend to blame any single religion or political party, but to expound on a thought that has been creeping around like a ravenous wolf in the back of my mind for some time now. Oh, also, I am a white male.

To listen to some people, politicians, religious leaders and others, whenever a female, meaning, woman of the majority age of 18, or younger, becomes pregnant with a child, SHE ALONE seems to be responsible. I will not repeat some of the things which anyone can hear or read in the media. In my religious education, as a Catholic and as a member of a Jesuit Novitiate for a year, when I thought of becoming a priest, I learned that there has been only one time when a woman had a virgin birth. Christians and Muslims both believe this occurred with Mary, or Mariam, I believe the Muslims call her. I will not pass judgement on this idea but merely want to say, all the other times, numbering in the BILLIONS, a man was required to impregnate the woman. Yet, these smirking, sanctimonious individuals of questionable personal morality, (one legislator opposed abortion but recommended this for…