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Not sure what thread you're reading. In the one I wrote, I brought up a few possible solutions to get people thinking, and then said that if you don't like my ideas, you can suggest your own:
Other ideas/solutions I've shared:
- A public opinion campaign to shift the conversation from stopping abortion to preventing unwanted pregnancies.
- A media focus on studies that prove easily available birth control reduces unwanted pregnancies (and therefore abortion).
- A public opinion campaign to shift the conversation from stopping abortion to preventing unwanted pregnancies.
- A media focus on studies that prove easily available birth control reduces unwanted pregnancies (and therefore abortion).
- A public opinion campaign to help men recognize how dangerous their sperm is, and that they must be incredibly careful with their bodily fluids.
- Fund programs that make condoms as available, affordable, and commonplace as toilet paper.
- Fund programs that make condoms as available, affordable, and commonplace as toilet paper.
- Add a focus on the man's responsibility to prevent pregnancy to all sex ed curriculum, because condoms are the simplest, easiest, cheapest, safest, most convenient way to prevent pregnancy.
- A public opinion campaign to counter the myths about condoms. In responding to my thread, many men mentioned that condom use doesn't have to diminish pleasure at all.
There is advice for finding the right condom, and there are helpful tips — like putting a few drops of lubrication inside the condom — that many (or most?) men don't know about. Make it super clear that having sex without a condom is irresponsible, reckless, and selfish.
I adore men and believe the vast majority definitely don't want to be irresponsible, reckless, and selfish — it's just they've never been taught that sex without a condom is exactly that.
- Don't let politicians use abortion as a political tool. If they bring up the topic of abortion, remind them the only way to reduce abortions is to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Ask them how they propose to hold men accountable for irresponsible ejaculation.
Don't let politicians talk about abortion; keep redirecting them to prevention. Don't publish or share their policies on abortion, only prevention.
- Educate men (and women) on how safe and simple vasectomies are. Teach them that vasectomies don't affect your manhood or sex life. Show them how vasectomies are much safer, more foolproof, and more effective than women's birth control options.
- Vasectomies are already highly reversible, but we could fund research so doctors could perfect vasectomy methods, with the goal of making them universally reversible.
- Subsidize the cost of vasectomies so they essentially free — or the same cost as a box of condoms.
- Subsidize the cost of vasectomies so they essentially free — or the same cost as a box of condoms.
- Criminalize the action of using bodily fluids to cause an unwanted pregnancy, with the goal of making sure men take the act of sex seriously, understand the risks, and are extremely careful with their semen.
- Fund research to make women's birth control much safer and easier — so safe and easy it can be available 24/7 like condoms.
Of course, feel free to add your own ideas. And to be clear ANY OF THOSE IDEAS would be more effective at reducing abortion, and keeping women safe and healthy, than making abortion illegal.
If someone is focusing on making abortion illegal, they don't actually care about reducing abortions. They just want to control women. If someone truly wants to reduce abortions, they need to focus on men and prevention.
