I'm glad that you mentioned the death penalty for drug smugglers being well pulicized in Indonesia, because that reinforces an important point about why death penalty is not only inhuman, but also useless: it doesn't work as a deterrent to crime. If it did, Indonesia, US, Japan, Saudi Arabia, China, etc., would be…

In 1996, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions stated explicitly that the death penalty should be eliminated for drug-related offenses.

It took them three hits with the sword, and she was given nothing to dull the pain, such as painkillers. But that sounds really humane! Fuck western racism!!!

They can offer to contribute all they want. These men are overlooking the bodily autonomy and sentience of women they impregnated by implying they could've forced her to carry.

Right?? That entitled shit head thinks he has the right to barge in on this woman's life, decades later, in order to get her to assuage his guilt and make him feel better. What a tragic hero he is.

It apparently was needed so bad that he hunted down some poor woman he had seen in decades just to bother her with this shit. Yeah he says that she apologized to him for getting the abortion but I'm willing to bet that she would say anything to get rid of a guy that pulled that stalker nonsense. What a creeper.

That is damn well not what these men actually want to say, deep in their Christian unborn baby-saving hearts. They want to be able to say "You're not having an abortion, and that's final. I'M THE MAN, RAWR!!!!" And they want the laws to back them up. "Let's" not pretend "we" don't understand that.

No, it's about looking a woman in the eye and saying "I know you want to have an abortion, but what I want is more important".

It was all a very long time ago now, and it was the last time I had a serious romantic relationship with a boy, so unintended pregnancy hasn't been a thing to deal with/worry about for a long time. Although I have always identified as bisexual, the fact that men seem to have so many weird ideas about women's bodies…

Interesting SHE got pregnant- but these men say THEY got the abortion.

Yes, exactly!

Haha, jesus... I'm sorry that happened to you, but I'm glad that you stuck to your guns and laughed in your dad's stupid face (harsh judging your dad right now).

Of course. Because FEMALES and PERIODS.

just conceived a baby right there in her womb, all by herself: so why does he have any say so in the abortion if it was all her doing?! hmm?! HMM?!

Exactly! The injustice of those 5 women (out of the 40 on the Judiciary Committee) taking up spots that could have been filled by men to speak on this issue... it's sickening, really.

Come on now...it's not like there are entire government committees assembled solely of men to decide how and if women can even get an abortion...in one of the supposedly most progressive countries in the world... >.> .... <.< ... oh wait.

She ate a bad burrito. I got diarrhea.

All about the menz.

"I'm sorry for men not taking a greater stand in this area," Idleman adds.

"she got pregnant. I had an abortion."