If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

Famous Quotes / Barbara Ehrenreich

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Barbara Ehrenreich: "If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies."

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Abortions	Appendectomies	Aspirin	Bellies
Cigarette	Cirrhosis	Classified	Commuter
Condition	Controversial	Disease	Drink
Emergency	Endstage	Equally	Even
Fainting	Fight	Knew	Might
Nearly	Onto	Pregnancy	Risk
Sexually	Spells	Stiff	Subject
Suffering	Sure	Swell	Trains
Transmitted	Unable	Without	Year

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If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies. - Barbara Ehrenreich