Tassie wants to legalise abortions for men. You heard right

While it’s an immutable fact of biology that men can’t fall pregnant, Labor and the Greens are pushing for laws to allow Tasmanian men to have abortions. Gender ideology has reached peak insanity, writes Miranda Devine.

Gender ideology has reached peak insanity in Tasmania, where Labor and the Greens are pushing laws in parliament which would allow abortions for men.

Yes, you heard that right. Abortions for men.

Now, of course, men can’t have abortions because men can’t be pregnant.

That is an immutable fact of biology.

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But the ascension of identity politics has turned truth on its head. We now see headlines about “pregnant men” and “breastfeeding men”. The British Medical Association even has asked doctors to use the term “pregnant person” to avoid being accused of “transphobia”

Our language increasingly is clouded by Orwellian newspeak.

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In Tasmania, which seems to be the petri dish for ever more extreme gambits, the Liberal government last year introduced same sex marriage amendments to the law which removed the terms “mother, father, wife and husband”.

This opened the door to the Greens and Labor who introduced amendments to create gender neutral birth certificates, and to allow anyone aged over 15 to self-identify as any gender simply by swearing a statutory declaration.

During the campaign to preserve the definition of marriage, we warned that the 🏳️‍🌈 activists would not stop. But not even I thought abortions for “men” would be on the agenda. Vote @AuConservatives in the Senate for a voice for common sense. #Auspol https://t.co/2rAPirkWZv

— Lyle Shelton (@LyleShelton) March 27, 2019

Then the Tasmanian Attorney-General warned that doctors who perform abortions on transgender men could lose protections under the state’s reproductive laws.

“It is not difficult to imagine circumstances in which a person with the physical attributes of a female, but whose gender is registered as something other than female, may require a termination.”

So that means more amendments to include men in maternity matters, which will have to be renamed to something less gender specific.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave.

@mirandadevine