Men Discuss How Abortions Have Affected Them

“Ruined my chance to drop out of college to work a minimum-wage job so I could barely be able to support a family.”

“I mean, just imagine how many kids I’d have if it weren’t for abortion.”

“I try to pull out a lot quicker now.”

“I don’t know what that is, but my girlfriend is always bitching about it.”

“Nothing to report yet, but I’ll let you know if abortion ever impacts me in any way.”

“Well, here I am in jail for doing a very necessary procedure to save a woman’s life, but I’ve been doing a lot of push-ups, so ultimately it was for the best.”

“After I stripped away a woman’s fundamental right to bodily autonomy, people got really angry at me, which hurt my feelings.”

“I’ve really destroyed my throat the past few years while screaming at women on their way into Planned Parenthood.”

“I learned where babies come from.”

“It hasn’t affected me too much, but I’m glad someone gave me the chance to put myself at the center of this discussion.”

“I don’t usually open up about this kind of stuff, but I was actually aborted.”

“I became president of the United States.”

“It pains me every time I see a woman exercise bodily autonomy.”

“A lot more requests coming in for balloons printed with nuanced reactions to pregnancy.”

“I’m against anything that decreases preventable deaths for poor women of color.”

“My boat tour of Cleveland’s family planning clinics really wouldn’t exist without it.”

“I remember having to get up really early to drive my girlfriend there, and having to wait in the car for, like, a half hour, and then on the way home I had to get gas, which was really expensive too.”

“Chairs can’t get pregnant, as far as I know, so it doesn’t affect me in the slightest.”

“I hate that I have to start using protection. Sex just doesn’t feel as good with a hairnet covering my penis.”

“They’ve saved my ass more than a few times.”

“I feel like you’re hoping to get a metaphor from me comparing pregnancy to the tender life cycle of a seed or whatever, and I’m not going to give it to you.”