Thank you, Ossiana. This is a deeply empathetic assessment of men’s feelings about abortion and the way these feelings are being exploited by the antiabortion zealots of the rabid right. I’m quite convinced that opposition to abortion rights has caught on among right-wingers because it is the ONLY political issue where they can claim the moral high ground—“the right to life”—even though their dedication to this lasts only until the child’s birth (after which they are opposed to any government support for needy mothers and babies as “socialism.”)
All their other default political positions are morally bankrupt: enabling the rich and powerful get ever richer and more powerful, letting corporations trash the environment, denying science, promoting bigotry and xenophobia, legalizing assault weapons for anyone, etc. So they virtue-signal by sanctimoniously proclaiming the “right to life”…until birth!