I think abortion definately wouldn't be as illegal as it is now! Let's face it... the majority of people in power are male. If it was suddenly all about their bodily rights, you can bet abortion would be legal.

Hmm i have no idea. In my experience women do usually have more of an opinion about abortion but that could be because it's them who it happens to. if men were to be the child-bearers then perhaps it would be alittle differnt because like eiri said there are more men in power than women and if it directly effected their body's then they woul dhave more of an opinion about it

This has always been an interesting and thought provoking question for me. If men could become pregnant, would abortion be more legal and less villified everywhere? I believe it would as long as men still held most of the power. However, the fact that .women have less power is directly related to the fact that they are the only people capable of becomming pregnant and giving birth.

In any society, the people who hold the power are the people who own the means of production - food, tools, energy, etc. Since a Woman's body is the only means of producing the next generation of workers, whoever controls the woman's body controls the power of life itself. Therefore those who cannot biologically produce the next generation of workers (men) have, in every society to date sought at one time or another to control women's bodies. It is because we (women) are the only ones capable of giving birth that we are the ones oppressed.

So, it begs the question that if men could suddenly become pregnant, would they still retain their power or would power shift to those who seek to control that means of production. I honestly don't know but it's fascinating to think about it.

And of course abortion is a feminist issue. If women control their bodies themselves, they are less oppressed than when someone else, usually a male in their family or life, is controlling it for them. True equality in all social realms can only be attained when women have control over their own bodies and lives.

I definitely think that this would be a private "family" issue if men were the ones who bore children. I believe that birth control would be as common as bubble gum machines, and also, tampons would not be locked up in a machine in the bathroom, they would be as available as toilet paper. Can you picture some guy with his pants around his ankles looking for change for the machine? Neither can i. Can you see some guy begging a judge for the "permission" to remove something unwanted from his body? neither can I.