When It Comes to Choice, Should Men Get One?

The pregnancy players

Man with duct tape on his mouth. Image (pre-tape) by Sander Sammy on Unsplash

In an episode of the show Parenthood (the series that predated and likely inspired This Is Us), a teenage couple deals with a pregnancy. The girl wants an abortion; the boy doesn’t want her to have one. She gets the abortion, anyway. The boy is supportive (he loves her), but when it’s done, he’s broken, distraught, and for the first time goes to his…