Maria’s Reviews > Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion > Status Update

“Holding men accountable for their actions does not make women victims. Asking men to take some responsibility is not the same as allowing women to take no responsibility.”

“If you actually want to reduce abortions … If you focus on dramatically reducing the number of irresponsible ejaculations, you will dramatically reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, and you will dramatically reduce the number of abortions.”

“A woman having an orgasm while a man penetrates her risks nothing and hurts no one. A man having an orgasm while he penetrates her a woman risks everything—he risks her body, her health, her income, her relationships, her social status, even her life, and he also risks creating another human being.”

“Any man who has had a vasectomy and/or who uses condoms regularly and correctly and/or declines to have unprotected sex with a woman is taking responsibility for what he does with his penis and where he ejaculates. Any man who isn’t doing these things isn’t taking responsibility.”

“Men assume women will do all the work of pregnancy prevention, that a woman will take responsibility for her own body and for the man’s body, and women assume women will do it, too.”

“… our current culture doesn’t expect men to be responsible…”

“Why would a woman ever need to ask a man to wear a condom? Why wouldn’t it be the default that men should provide their own condom and put it on without a request? Who benefits if the man doesn’t wear a condom?”

“No matter how much sex she has, her orgasms cannot *cause* a pregnancy.”

“Even in the case of consensual sex, the man gets final say. This is how it works:
Step 1: Woman consents to sex.
Step 2: Man decides if he will ejaculate responsibly.”

“[E]jaculation is … men choosing to direct sperm from their body and put it someplace else.”