From Dot Calm's mailbag...

 

Enforced pregnancy = mandatory organ donation

 

As a man, would you allow your entire body to be coopted without your permission for nearly a year--hooked up to life support--so that a stranger you'd never met (and might never meet) could have a chance to live parasitically off your heart, kidneys, digestive system, etc.?

How would you feel, knowing that accepting the risks would change your physical life forever--maybe even kill you? Does this stranger have more right to your body than you do--does his or her need outweigh your right to autonomy over your own body?

There's an old urban legend of a man going into a bar and taking a pretty girl home only to wake up in a bath tub full of ice because "they'd" harvested one of his kidneys to transplant into someone else. If you're comfortable with the notion of someone doing this to you, then good on you--you are a noble creature worthy of praise and acclaim--but, even so, you have NO RIGHT to dictate that what's OK for you is mandatory for the next person. And if you find this scenario objectionable, then LEAVE WOMEN ALONE about birth control and abortion.