Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

Ebook, 2022

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Available

Call number

363.96

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Politics. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in post-Roe America. In a series of 28 brief arguments, Blair deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women�??s bodies and instead directs the focus on men�??s lack of accountability in preventing unwanted pregnancies. Highly readable, accessible, funny, and unflinching, Blair builds her argument by walking readers through the basics of fertility (men are 50 times more fertile than women), the unfair burden placed on women when it comes to preventing pregnancy (90% of the birth control market is for women), the wrongheaded stigmas around birth control for men (condoms make sex less pleasurable, vasectomies are scary and emasculating), and the counterintuitive reality that men, who are fertile 100% of the time, take little to no responsibility for preventing pregnancy.  The result is a compelling and convincing case for placing the responsibility�??and burden�??of preventing unwanted pregnancies away from women and on… (more)

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LibraryThing member villemezbrown
Provocative title and an orange cover? Must read!

The contents are just as provocative -- and sort of orangish -- and I fully endorse the need to assert men's responsibility for unwanted pregnancies. (It puts me in mind of the "last clear chance" doctrine in accident litigation.)

While I support the
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right to abortion, I have long felt that society should be doing more to minimize its necessity by reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies by providing sex education, free contraceptives and vasectomies, and support for those who are pregnant or have just given birth so choosing to remain pregnant doesn't seem a source of financial and personal ruin. In my mind, those who can only think in terms of bans are not as pro-life as they claim to be.
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LibraryThing member addunn3
Should be required reading for all!
LibraryThing member potds1011
An excellent short but poignant read that really brings home a lot of contested issues around abortion and how men should not be absolved of responsibility as they currently are.
LibraryThing member Citizenjoyce
I recently finished Ejaculate Responsibly after seeing Gabrielle Stanley Blair interviewed on a book program. She's a religious woman with 6 kids who thinks reasonably. In fact, she thinks so reasonably that this book should be required reading for every politician and religious person with an
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opinion on abortion. However, banning abortion has nothing to do with reason, so I'm sure most would not be swayed. Her idea is that women are fertile for just a few days a month for a few years of their lives. Men are fertile every day for almost their entire lives. If one wants to stop abortion then the only reasonable thing to do is to make sure that men ejaculate responsibly.
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