A review by pmhandley
Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

funny informative reflective fast-paced

3.5

It's a fun thought experiment, if pretty repetitive. I don't know if there was enough material for a book over 100 pages. It's certainly an excellent reframing. I also found some of the rhetoric on vasectomies to be misinformation - there was a Washington Post article after Roe debunking vasectomy myths, and the first one was quoting urologists stating men should treat a vasectomy as a permanent procedure. This isn't to say I disagree with the author's point around them, but I think she's a little too flippant with the suggestion that you could get one and then reverse it when actually ready to have children.  It is pretty much misinformation the way it's presented. I also was bothered she used STI criminalization as an analogy here. STI criminalization, especially HIV criminalization, is a BAD thing. It existing in some states is a problem, not a parallel example to compare unwanted pregnancy to. That is not a feminist, sex-positive or pro-bodily autonomy argument. 
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