http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/u-v/usher/2005/usher022005.htm

February 20, 2005
by David R. Usher

Men who are sick and tired of having no sexual or gender power in marriage
and society have something very important to do: demand legalization and
widespread distribution of the male birth control pill immediately.
Feminists were brutally wise urging birth control for women. They cried for
a way to prevent coat-hanger abortions and to free women from the burden of
unintended motherhood. But the actual political goal, as discussed in
feminist books, was to grant women penultimate control over reproduction,
and subsequently, family under the guise of "choice". At the other end of
the spectrum, this line of thinking also created Rowe v. Wade, which
additionally gave women sole control over everything between conception and
birth, insinuating addition sole pre-emptive rights even after birth. The
women's sexual liberation movement was more about creating a matriarchy than
anything else. Social data proves this is a reality today.

Having sole control over conception and termination of conception is an
awesome amount of power, particularly when one realizes what this has done
to family law. Because feminists essentially have total control over all
aspects of reproduction, feminist legal principles extending from Rowe v.
Wade came to dominate family law, impressing these values on culture from
the trial court bench. As it stands, virtually everything within 1000 yards
of a woman's reproductive tract is legally seen as an extension of her body,
and therefore, her choice.

Over the years, I have worked with thousands of men who, in my opinion, were
raped. "Rape" is the act of forcing one's reproductive capacity on another
person. But law only recognizes this act when a man does it via physical
force and violence.

Women force their reproductive capacity on men not by using overwhelming
physical force, but by deception and seduction. It is an act of social
violence, not physical violence. When combined with the action of welfare
laws, it becomes the act of stealing a man's natural right to be a father
and husband. It also becomes slavery, where a man who is denied the right to
be a father and husband, must then labor for the benefit of the mother, for
which he receives absolutely nothing in return.

Many men end up in paternity suits because his girlfriend said she was using
an (invisible) form of contraception; when in fact she was not. Men have no
way to verify this. The rape is the misrepresentation of fact surrounding
the most powerful aspect of life itself: reproduction and the social
structure under which the mother intends it to take place.

A few years ago, I had an extended discussion with Cathy Young about this
problem. Despite Cathy's wisdom in many areas, she simply couldn't agree
with me. "Reproductive fraud" is about as far as she could see. The point
here is that we can no longer diminish what women do to men when they force
their reproductive capacity on men.

How often do women rape men? I have not seen any studies on this issue. But
we can measure the problem another way, perhaps more factually, by looking
at illegitimacy statistics. If women were being responsible with birth
control, we would expect that illegitimacy would decrease with the
introduction of modern birth control methods. It has not. Despite having the
best contraceptive methods in the history of civilization, the number of
children born out of wedlock in 1995 is thirteen times higher than it was in
1960 (Rosenberg, Harry M. et al. Births and Deaths in the United States,
1995: Monthly Vital Statistics Report). Illegitimacy rates remain unchanged
since 1995 [childstats.gov - America's Children in Brief, 2004 ].

So we have it. Despite having the most effective birth control methods
available in the history of womankind, women have taken reproductive
advantage of men in astonishing numbers. The really sick part is that
society blames this all on men, who have very little control over
contraception at all.

Men are not stupid. We all know about this problem. Some men resolve the
issue by having themselves neutered. Others avoid the problem by finding
their gay side, and subsequently join forces with radical feminists who now
want to give women the right to marry each other so they don't need men at
all. Some men never go beyond chat room relationships.

But most men eventually end up being raped. It does not have to be this way.

When the "male pill" becomes widely available, I predict we will see
profound changes in culture, social data, and legal decisions surrounding
the "gender power equation". Very few men want to end up being served up on
the platter of radical feminism. There is no doubt in my mind that the vast
majority of men will be highly responsible with birth control, where women
have failed so miserably.

Men must live life in the answer. We, too, should have equal control over
our bodies and reproduction. The technology is here. All we have to do is
organize ourselves and demand it. We no longer have to suffer the triple
indignities being raped, having to pay the rapist, and being blamed by
government, David Blankenhorn, and even Promise Keepers for it all.

It time for the "responsible half" of the sexual revolution organizes
itself, so that men can have equal reproductive and legal rights in society,
family, and home. We are being held responsible for the problem, so we might
as well put ourselves in a position where we can be responsible for our
destiny

Men finally need the right to decide who they are going to get pregnant
with. When we can, we will be well on the way towards ending Rowe v. Wade
and the plethora of feminist family law principles that fall out of that
decision.

The male pill will bring about a tremendous realignment of gender power in
relationships. When women can no longer garner the economic benefits of
marriage by taking advantage of men sexually and socially, women will again
see marriage as a worthy institution. Women will no longer be society's
"free agents". The power-sharing institution known as marriage will become
the norm.

Over time, we will see a realignment of legal principles towards
responsibility-based marriage in which men are treated much more fairly. Why
will this take place? When illegitimacy ends, the feminist-political-media
complex will not be able to use men as the scapegoats of the world. Men will
commonly be treated with more respect, and men will be in a clear position
to demand it.

Is this a conservative approach? You triple-ditto bet it is. Abstinence is
certainly a worthy goal in high school (when kids have plenty to learn and
parental controls are in place), but you can't expect that of men forever. I
will bet a date with Hillary Clinton that Rush Limbaugh wasn't a virgin at
age 25. The abstinence programs and welfare reforms in effect for the past
decade have not reduced the overall illegitimacy rate one bit. The greater
illegitimacy problem is clearly not one of abstinence - it revolves around
the fact that men have little control over when they get pregnant.
Empowering men to end the illegitimacy problem is precisely what is needed.

Ending the need for the welfare state is the biggest problem government and
all political parties have wrestled with for over thirty years. The male
pill will largely abate this problem. When men have equal reproductive
gender power, many of the welfare-state problems will simply go away. All
Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians finally have a powerful tool to
take care of the very problem that obviously can't be prevented by the
traditional reactionary vehicles of education, child support enforcement,
incarceration of men, and ratcheting feminist socialism.

Those who want to end abortion have a powerful way to end political support
for Rowe v. Wade. Most men desperately do not want the problems that go with
out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Men learn at a very early age they don't get
anything out of an out-of-wedlock birth except discrimination, a huge child
support order, and the condemnation of society. In fact, we can predict that
men will be far more responsible about using birth control than women are
because they are the only ones who have a strong incentive to use it.
Abortion will become a relic of the past when women rarely get pregnant out
of wedlock.

Cultural restoration of marriage depends decisively on the male pill. Men
hate the welfare state. They remain unwilling victims of its predatory
practices to this very day. The divorce revolution succeeded only because it
rode the coattails of the welfare state, which created the notion that we
should entitle women for having children out of wedlock. When this
entitlement diminishes, reforming the divorce revolution will become a
separate and politically approachable problem. When men finally have equal
reproductive power, the cultural institution of marriage will become the
most popular option - because it is the only institution in which men have
equal rights in family, home, and society.

If conservatism is about fungible equality for all Americans - the ownership
society, marriage, and ending welfarism; then conservatives must actively
call for the male pill. It is the magic bullet with which all
egalitarian-minded political parties, organizations, and individuals can end
the misery and burden inflicted on every taxpayer, mother, father, and child
touched by the problem of family breakdown.

David R. Usher


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