Because here's the thing: somehow, in all of the wankery and douchebaggery and windbaggering about abortion, an essential point is completely overlooked--and the constitutional right to the ownership of one's own body becomes merely a 'woman's issue' (read: 'irrelevant' 'frivolous' and 'hysterical'). So let me go ahead and make a point of it: abortion is the reason dudes/guys get to have casual sex at all.* We might plausibly say that dudes/guys are in many ways the primary beneficiaries of legal abortion in this country.
Why so? Because women know that dudes/guys are not to be relied upon for the long haul, not for anything that really matters. Women know that a dude/guy is going to flake out when you need them most. Confronted with an overflowing toilet, a broken-down car, or Jesus, even just curtains that need to be hung, a dude/guy will suddenly have Very Important Things To Do Elsewhere. When faced with something even more pressing and non-negotiable, something like, say, a screaming infant, a dude/guy will suddenly have Very Important Things to do...in Peru. Or Tibet. Costa Rica, possibly. Places where, mysteriously, there aren't reliable phones or internet connections or telegraph wires or carrier pigeons. 95% of women see these guys for what they are, but are willing to play along for reasonably decent sex for a short period of time. In general, though, women are relentlessly practical and rarely sentimental (though occasionally delusional). No woman wants to have an unplanned pregnancy, and there is not one woman in the world who would think of an abortion as a real good time. Every woman hopes to never have to make that choice. But the fact that there is the chance of a choice means that women make different decisions than they would otherwise. It means that at 2 a.m. in a bar they're not looking at someone who could be the father of their child, but at someone who is cute enough for now. On the one hand, there's simple addition and subtraction; on the other, calculus and non-Euclidean geometry. It's an entirely different category of calculation.
To cut to the chase, your average dude/guy's chances of getting laid in a bar on a Saturday night decrease by approximately 90% once abortion is outlawed. Women's knees would slam together in such force that a mighty and terrifying thunderclap would be heard across the nation. Any guy who likes getting laid, but is not yet ready to be a father and a husband--that is, any guy who is not yet ready to be a man--should be holding up pro-choice signs on the steps of every Capitol building in every state.
*Distinguishing dudes/guys from men; these days men are vastly outnumbered, I'm sorry to say, by dudes/guys.
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