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93,000 Reasons Men Should Worry About SCOTUS Pick

Shelly Fagan
3 min readSep 22, 2020

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Now a women’s issue, abortion is about to become a men’s rights nightmare.

With the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American men should be concerned about the Republican-controlled US Senate ramming through a SCOTUS pick.

In fact, they have about 93,000 reasons to be worried.

With a new Supreme Court Justice, overturning Roe v. Wade will be a priority for the GOP. This is the one issue which has galvanized the Republican party. With the upcoming General Election, conservatives want to energize their dwindling voter base, and nothing fans the flames of their moral outrage quite like the subject of abortion rights.

Long considered solely a women’s issue, ending abortion will quickly become a men’s rights nightmare.

Overturning this landmark decision would end abortion on demand and threaten the availability of emergency contraceptives such as levonorgestrel, ulipristal acetate or mifepristone, known as the morning after pill.

Why should men care? Because they will pay. And pay. And pay.

To keep children off benefit rolls, states are relentless in their quest to determine paternity. Of the approximately $144 billion in child support debt owed, about 25% goes to the state…

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Shelly Fagan
Shelly Fagan

Written by Shelly Fagan

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