Today’s quote comes to us from Eric Swallwell (D-CA) the hard-left house member who is one of the 24 Democrats running for the party’s presidential nomination.
Since it is a requisite for any Democrat presidential nominee, I assume you know that Mr. Swallwell is pro-choice. But you may not know what pro-choice means to him – or, at any rate, what he says it means to a crowd of activists protesting the limitations on abortion being voted on by states like Alabama, Missouri and Louisiana.
Says Rep. Swallwell:
“My wife Brittany also wants you to know we’ve got two beautiful children, Nelson and Cricket. But the decision to have children was her choice (emphasis his, not mine). And it should be every woman’s choice in America.
“So, here is what we are going to do. We are going to walk with our brothers and sisters down in the south. We’re going to march with them, we’re going to link arms with them, and we’re going to change those state houses on the way to change the White House in 2020.”
That’s fascinating, isn’t it?
Here is a man proudly telling us that he had no say in whether his children came into the world, and shouldn’t have had any say. That he, as the biological father, with full legal responsibilities for those children, was nothing more than a sperm donor…and that’s the way it should be.
Tell us, Mr. Swallwell: if a man and a woman have sex and she becomes pregnant, does the man have a right to tell her that he does not want the child, so if she exercises her sole discretion in the matter and carries to term, he refuses any responsibility to raise the child or pay child support?
Has Swallwell, or anyone else who believes it is 100% the woman’s decision, thought about that?
Personally, I agree that, during the time abortion is legal, the final decision on whether to have a baby should be made by the woman. She is the one carrying that child and whose physicality is affected by the pregnancy. (Once there is a live child inside her, that becomes a very different story.)
But, again speaking personally, when my wife and I talked about having a family, there was never any doubt that it was a mutual decision. It wasn’t her telling me “this is what I’m going to do, and if you don’t like it, tough luck”.
So, as you might expect, I find the spectacle of a politician standing in front of abortion activists and handing them the red-meat line that it is only a woman’s decision, and that the man – who, by law, is an equally responsible party if she decides to carry to term – should not have any say at all/should just shut up and be told whether he will or will not be a father, to be extremely distasteful.
I award Eric Swallwell Quote Of The Day “honors” for telling us that it would have been perfectly OK with him if his wife decided their children should never have been born.
I wonder how Nelson and “Cricket” (a nickname for Kathryn) feel about that.
