However, the constitutional protection for reproductive freedom can also be eliminated without directly overturning Roe. Opponents on the Court have already identified Roe as being left standing like the facade of a western movie set with the illusion from the store fronts on main street but no substance behind them. As a woman I'm scared by Bush and his supporters. I work with a few ardent Bush supporters who solely talk of abortion in terms of promiscuous women who use abortion as birth control. They never mention the males who play an equal responsibility for pregnancy or the fathers who abandon their children.
Men do have a responsibility for children they father and an equal responsibility for birth control.
Some efforts in Congress to promote responsible fatherhood would, however, divert scarce resources needed for poor, single parents into programs to benefit non-custodial fathers and religious programs with a sectarian agenda. For more than 30 years NOW has called for men to take an equal share of the responsibility for child rearing and other family needs. Certainly NOW is concerned with preserving the rights to birth control and abortion, but women also need the right realistically to have and raise our children. NOW works for equal economic opportunity, freedom from violence, whether in our homes or on the streets, civil rights for all people, including work to eliminate racism and homophobia and a constitutional guarantee of equality for women. To accomplish our many goals we seek political empowerment of women in the public and private sectors.