THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH DECEPTION.

The canard that abortion policy is a "women's issue" is bad enough.  "For years, the women of the fevered brow have treated their stance on abortion as the One True Stance, and they have used their cultural power to excommunicate those women who disagree, and the only proper role for men is to nod and say nothing more than 'Yes, dear.'"  For the most part, though, that policy advocacy has trafficked in the rubric of "reproductive health" and any Serious Discussion has to trot out "rapeincestlifeofthemother" within a few words of any mention of abortion.

Oh, and if you want to get lit up by the women of the fevered brow, go here.

She did not raise a popular rallying cry from years ago that ran something like "if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."  That slogan was a dig at the Catholic Church, with its strict stance on abortion, and its use of sacraments as teaching points.  It was nyekulturny, dear reader, to point out that the scariest thing many a randy guy could hear was his latest fling saying "I'm three weeks late."  Too male chauvinist.  Until last week.  "I’m not hearing enough from dudes who were saved from an unwanted fatherhood because their partner was able to have an abortion."  That drew the obvious response.  "Stop banging chicks you wouldn't want to have a kid with."

That is, until banging the chick you don't want to have a kid with becomes part of the Project 2025 scare.

MAGA wants to control everything about you.

Including when you can have a baby.

Yeah, bro.

Even you.#MAGAInYourSheetspic.twitter.com/XPpZJCuiMN

— Eleven Films (@ElevenFilms) October 31, 2024

The producers of that skit claim to be moving wavering Trump voters away from voting Trump.

The nonprofit progressive advocacy group DemCast said the ad was one "every man in America" needs to see.

"The only way to guarantee our right to privacy is to vote for Democrats," said the group. "They have no interest in forcing guys to be dads before they are ready."

The production company Eleven Films said the ad provides a new perspective on the idea that "MAGA wants to control everything about you. Including when you can have a baby."

"Yeah, bro," said the organization. "Even you."

Nick Knudsen, co-founder and executive director of DemCast, said that the ad, "when tested, moves under-30-men by 2+ points away from Donald Trump."

Neither Common Dreams writer Julia Conley nor Newsweek's Jesus Mesa were able to confirm Mr Knudsen's claim of voters switching allegiance, not that what is likely anecdotal evidence at best matters.

It's revealing, though, that stopping Trump means confirming what the squares were saying about "do your own thing" a half century ago.

Even when you are being responsible, sh%t happens. Kids are wonderful with the right person and at the right place and time. Until then we all deserve a Plan B. This reminder that MAGA wants to take that away from us is the scariest thing you see today. #MAGAInYourSheets https://t.co/o2Y1hhY0jv

— Alicia Strohl Resnicoff (@AliciaResnicoff) October 31, 2024

Yes, for arbitrary values of "responsible."

Put simply, more bourgeois convention, fewer hookups gone wrong.  But that has long been the dirty little secret of abortion rights.  "They don't care about reproductive rights or women's rights in general. They want easy access to you for sex without consequence."  Yes, that's all people dunking on each other on Twitter, as aggregated by Twitchy, and yet, for each advocate of easier access to abortion on behalf of rape, incest, the life of the mother, Tay-Sachs, Down syndrome, or some other High-Sounding Cause there was somewhere in the neighborhood of one advocate who was into "do your own thing" or "smash monogamy" or any of the other Trendy Causes of the era.

I'm glad the people who for all those years denied such things now admit to it.  If this Alicia Resnicoff is letting on that she's thrown herself at the wrong person at the wrong time on occasion, that, too, ought to be clarifying.