I think her point is that legislators need to get the f#*k out of our bedrooms. Gov't can't/shouldnt legislate morality, and when they do, it's often to distract Americans from other BS they are up to. Yeah, in a perfect world, we all wear rubbers.

So her idea is to bribe men for equal rights? Just feeding the old narrative that women are providers of sex and men are consumers.

Unless the wives and mistresses of pro life legislators participate, which they won’t, the strike will be completely pointless and just reinforce the idea that women have to be abstinent, which is what the pro life movement wants.

Usually it's better to fight the cause instead of the symptoms. Sadly with abortion this isn't the case. Women don't choose to get raped and become pregnant. Any lawmaker that is prohibiting victims of rape to have the pregnancy terminated under safe medical conditions is a monster. There are enough reasons for a woman to decide to have an abortion, which she even shouldn't have to explain. Lawmakers have no right to declare these women murderers by reinstating medieval laws. Luckily there's a lot of medication available on the internet to end pregnancies.

I vote for men to get a vasectomy until both side are ready and agrees to have babies. No need to ask them, sperm is life! so they're not entitled to decide over their bodies as long as they're holding life inside of them

This is problematic from a relationship stand point. You should not be punishing your significant by withhold sex (or really punishing them at all). I also agree that it makes it seem like sex is for men.

Wow... Abstinence as the solutions. The ultra conservative peolple will rejoyce.

I'm not triggered and I'm supportive of gender equality and abortion rights but this is stupid, the line between pro life/choice is not determined by your gender. My girlfriend refusing to have sex with me, someone who is pro-choice is not going to change the mind of Ben Shapiro types it's also unlikely his wife who more than likely is also pro life is going to refuse him sex in order to achieve something she does not believe in. When you actually consider the argument they're making, that abortion is murder performed by the state you got ask yourself is a sex ban going to make them change their minds if they consider the stakes so high, it would be like my GF trying to convince me to support the rights of the south to keep slaves by withholding sex it's just too important a topic.

I agree with the twitter user in the article who said that we should have a #spendingstrike. I'm pretty sure that would have a bigger impact than abstaining from sex. Besides, what about those who haven't had sex yet (or in a long time)? Are they automatically participating in a sex strike?

She’s doing anything she can to stay relevant huh?

Why not take a stand against not murdering the countless innocent and learn about the many countless types of contraception maybe all these women doing the sex strike is good put the d**k dow n until you and your partner or partners can both protect your selfs and each other baby's don't asked to be made to don't choose to be so called accidents. In my opinion a baby is the nicest thing you can get from having unprotected sex it's the only thing that can't kill you and dog your body in side.

This sort of "sex strike" is actually known as a Lysistrata Gambit.

Punishing yourself trying to make a point is ridiculous.

D-list city.

i think she means well but that's not the right way to go about it. abortion should be very very rare i think. i am a woman and a proud one too but i don't think that every abortion law goes against my rights as a woman.

"While some women totally agreed with this strike and decided to participate", "Others believe this is only a step towards preaching conservative ideas and promoting abstinence over pro-choice", "Others were disappointed since this strike only devalues women even more" And.... Nobody concerned a strike like this would encourage potential rapists for a rampage? Maybe I'm being just a little over drammatic. But the initial idea behind this protest kind of makes sense. I don't think it looks like we have sex for men, it's more of a call out for men to team up, so we can all enjoy.

Not having sex can still give you a baby. Look at Mary! Btw was she married if not then Jesus was born without abstinence so ha to all christians!

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Wow, the top write-up paragraph was very well done. I'm impressed. This is the first time I've seen a Social Justice post on BP that was reasonably down the middle and presented both sides and was rather objective. Please keep this approach.

Maybe we should just stop having sex with men?

Abortion is murder.

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as a conservative christian I fully support this sex strike. After all, abstinence is the best way to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Women have the right to control their bodies, just not the separate body inside of them. (the only problem with the sex strike is that it treats sex as a favour women do for men.)

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Babies are alive before they are born - leave 'em alone.

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Alyssa Milano has completely lost her damn mind... she has become completely crazy after Trump was elected President. But thinking about it, maybe this sex strike is a good thing - no sex = no abortions and I'm all down for that. Abortion should not be legal, you are killing an innocent child and most people are not doing it because of health, they are doing it because having the child would be inconvenient. Aboriton should only be legal in extreme circumstances.

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Does this woman never shut up?