Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Time for Men to Speak Up for Women’s Reproductive Rights
Huffington Post: Where Are the Men?, by Robert Walker:
All across America, women are responding to the latest attacks on their reproductive health and rights. Female legislators, leading feminists and concerned women everywhere are fighting back. Good for them, but where are the men?
On the other side of the reproductive divide, there is no shortage of men. There was no shortage of men when a U.S. House oversight committee last week pulled together a panel of "expert" witnesses to testify against requiring health insurers to cover contraceptives for women who work for religiously-affiliated organizations. The majority on the committee called 11 witnesses. They were all men. That's why women on the committee walked out in protest. . . .
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/reproductive_rights/2012/02/men-time-to-speak-up-for-womens-reproductive-rights-1.html