HERE YOU SEE THE SEXISM INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM:

Herein lies the thorny political dilemma for politicians. Taking a side on this issue forces them to reject one of society’s two closely held beliefs: that women can do anything a man can do or that men go off to war to protect the country’s women and children.

If a politician supports the idea that women should have choice — in employment, over their bodies and pregnancies, about maternity leave — they probably don’t like the idea of a woman not having choice, even in theory, about joining a war.

So where has men’s choice been all these years?

We have fought for women’s choice regarding their bodies and their lives, but apparently men having no choice about joining a war is par for the course of being male.

But suggesting that women’s role in reproduction and childrearing justifies treating men and women differently opens up its own can of worms. . . .