What is with these Republicans , Conservatives ,Tea Party candidates and what not and their sudden interest in birth control, women's right to choose, abortion and other issues of this sort?
My first answer is the most obvious...It's a diversionary tactic...At a time when we should be focusing on the economy...They really don't have an answer to those problems...So what do they do? What they always do..They bring up a talking point that has nothing to do with the problem at hand... One year it was Affirmative Action...Another year it was illegal immigration...Then they bring out Gay marriage, their favorite...and now Abortion and reproductive rights!!
Why is this still an issue? Isn't Abortion already legal?? Why does this always come up? Why has it continuously come up ever so often? And why are the only people discussing this are men over 50? Hmmmmmm!
With the GOP Presidential primary candidates, this current reproductive rights flap started with Planned Parenthood, took a turn to a woman’s right to choose and now has gone full circle with their unanimous opposition to contraception whether its through the candidates goofy statements or the stand up comedy of their ancient surrogates, one of whom advises women to keep their legs together by pressing an aspirin between their knees. WOW! No doubt about it. It’s the boy’s War On Women.
So ladies, gear up for a 1950’s redux…18 years of chasing 10 kids around the house while Big Daddy flees the scene for the comfort of his workplace or the strip club like they do on the TV show "Mad Men"
Just so there is no misunderstanding here. Pregnancy is a hard row to hoe, but women are of such courage and love, that, in the end, it’s all more than worth it for a beautiful baby girl or baby boy. But should the life-altering circumstance of pregnancy be a constant in the life of a woman who may not want 10 kids; who may only want two children, or maybe none?
Here’s a wonderful solution that wise pundits have offered up for decades to educate men about the dynamics of women’s reproductive choices. Let the man have the baby. Then revisit all of the idiocy they so steadfastly defend. Yeah...I'm sure that if Rick Santorrum delivered ONE child...He'd think again about his idiotic statements of recent.
Physiologically though, it will never be possible for a male to deliver a baby, but in the alternative, let’s gauge how much pain a women goes through in a delivery and develop a procedure to replicate that pain for men. Maybe modern medicine could duplicate the birth experience for men with the passing of a kidney stone in combination with threading a pencil through the urethra. Now, we’re getting somewhere. And let’s do it every year or so for 7 or 8 years or more. For a really authentic male reality show, add 9 months of nausea and other annoying, painful and sometimes life-threatening side effects such as hemorrhaging and preeclampsia, plus excessive weight gain in some cases. Even after the baby is born and taken home there remains the possibility of postpartum depression and problems reversing that weight gain.
That’s what Republican Presidential Primary candidate, Rick Santorum wants women to do. Not just his wife, but all women. Because Rick of course knows best and his faith informs all of his secular reproductive decisions no matter that 99% of women have used contraceptives at some point in their lives.
Apparently, depending on his mood, Mitt Romney agrees with Rick Santorum on reproductive issues. On other occasions he shows a glimmer of common sense and respect for women.
We already know that Newt Gingrich sees women solely as objects d’sex so he has nothing to offer on the subject.Nothing. As for Batshit crazyRon Paul, you may add his hatred of the federal government to death and taxes as the only things certain in life. Ron Paul would hand all contraception decisions over to the states, overriding the definitive 1965 Supreme Court ruling on the issue, Griswold v. Connecticut. The court ruled the state’s ban on contraceptives to be an unconstitutional infringement on the right to marital privacy. In large measure the same right of privacy that locks Roe v. Wade into place, along with a half-dozen other constitutional guarantees.
I can’t imagine how four men (over 50) can be so highly educated and experienced in life and still be so insensitive to the issues of true importance to women. I would counsel political caution. Simply put, there are more of them (women) than there are of you GUYS (men). The latest census counted 157 million ladies as compared to 153 million men in the United States.
There are also a higher percentage of women in college; 55% of students are women. Individual women are giving birth to about a third fewer babies than 35 years ago, the rate declining from 3.1 to 1.9. What should be most worrisome to politicians of all stripes is the fact that in the last presidential election, more women voted (66%) than men (62%).
So the numbers for the eventual Republican presidential nominee are getting increasingly unfriendlier. Minorities won’t vote Republican. Those poor people who manage to escape Republican attempts to keep them from the polls won’t vote Republican; Independents and the middle-class are likely to give President Obama the edge and now with the emerging Republican War on Women, the group that really matters is running, not walking, to the Obama side of the equation.
Wise choice. Like I said...With these clowns running for office...President Obama might not even have to campaign...
So Republicans....Back up off a woman's uterus!
1 comment:
Keith, I completely agree that the republicans have gone over the cliff with this entire contraception-birth control mess. But now I understand the source of wittle "Ricky" concern. I'd say Rick is angry with women. Bill Maher says Rick never got over his treatment by girls in high school. My sister says Newsweek described how Rick's wife was involved with her college professor. She rented the prof's basement apartment but worked her way upstairs using sexual favors. Rick has been punishing her (and all women) since! Look at the poor woman. She looks beat down!! Does she look like she's enjoyed one moment of pleasure in the last twenty-some years?!?
And Mitt's wife has been threatening him, from the first time she gave birth, with locking her legs. She knows what to do with those Bayer aspirin.
You are correct in stating that women make up a rather large voting group. And most women have common sense. (There are enough of us to compensate for those you don't!)
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