Dear American Men--

The next time you are in a room with more than 2 women of childbearing age (this may not happen frequently for some of you), look right, look left, look forward: it is extremely likely that one of the three women in the room has had an abortion.

We don't bring it up at dinner. We will often deny it when asked. But yeah... we want sex as much as you do and want a child with every sexual partner we have as little as you do. Go figure. It's almost like men and women aren't that different after all.

I do not believe that the majority of you are thoughtless pricks. Yes, I mean that in the derogatory sense of penile comparison applied to personality. Anyway, you're not. Mostly, you're pretty good guys! You do give a crap when the people you care about are hurting. You do work your butts off to do, alongside your co-parent, the best you can for the kids you have. You do think for more than 2 seconds about birth control before putting part A into slot B. But not much more than 2 seconds. Just like women don't think about it in that moment for more than 2.5 seconds either. So why don't they take the pill? Well why don't you. There IS a pill for men, you know. Oh it has side effects. Welcome to our world.

Here's where it gets messy. When part A and slot B are not ... properly treated... well hell. What are we gonna name it? Is that really the way children should come into the world?

And my sense is that you guys, as great as you are, kinda sorta secretly (apparently at the moment not so secretly if you happen to be a State Legislator or Rush) blame the woman if it does come to "What are we gonna name it?" Contraception is HER job. (Except that we're not going to require private insurance plans to actually pay for that.)

And while I'm trying REALLY hard not to rant here... seriously?

How many of you take active responsibility for contraception? Do you? *eyes the male person who might be reading this*

Tell ya what: If your religious beliefs bar abortion, then you pay for every child you have some part into bringing into this world. AND ... yeah that's it. No shoving your beliefs down other people's throats.

I won't make your wife/girlfriend/mistress/hooker have an abortion if you don't take away my right have one.

Or anyone else's. I get that you ("you" being the nutsos I'm actually addressing and not the 90% of you who are actually sane but powerless) feel it's murder. Other people feel it's murder when you eat a steak. Does it give you pause? Didn't think so.

Because you feel their opinion is baseless. Good morning. Other people feel your opinion is baseless. How about thinking about how to figure out a way for as many people as possible to live by their own standards instead of shoving yours down... up... you get the picture.