Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-31-08 12:18 PM
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1. I remind them that their addlepated vote for McCombover would undo 40 years of progress for women, including continuing the asinine GOP war against contraception. I ask them if their heroine worship is important enough to deny their daughters protection against bearing multiple unwanted children, ruining their health, and eventually shortening their lives. I ask them why they hate the rest of us so much that they'd throw themselves into slavery just to make some stupid point about not getting their way.
Usually when I finish they're speechless. Then if they don't bring up the subject, I don't. Nobody has.
I have to think that most of them will come to their senses by November. The ones who don't need their screws tightened, but that aint my job.
You're right...if you said this to me I too would be speechless...not because of the profoundness of thought, but the profound stupidity of your diatribe. Firstly, the president of the United States would NOT take away birth control even IF he had it within his power to do so. Birth control is the responsible choice for many married couples who want to choose when to start a family or have another child. Condoms, used properly, can help prevent the spread of disease. Oh, I know what you're thinking...the pro-life folks who would like to see Roe overturned might hatch some nefarious plot to limit your 15 year old to a mere 5 abortions. Again, other than doing things like banning partial birth abortion the president CANNOT "make a law" against Roe. Even if Roe WAS overturned it would just send the issue back to the states. Here in OR we'd probably put a sign at the border..."Welcome women saddled with an unwanted fetus...follow I-5 to Portland's Lovejoy Clinic".
Of course, there IS always adoption even IF those evil Republicans manage to make you do the responsible thing and let the life you created make it out of your womb alive. Rest assured, neither you nor Obama would have to worry about your daughters "ruining" their lives by keeping it. It just boggles my mind that the same people who fly into a rage over an endangered sucker fish can also fly into a rage when someone proposes protecting a helpless unborn human.
If your daughter has so little self control that she has multiple abortions because she's using that as a birth control method then I suggest you keep a much closer eye on her until she has the maturity to use birth control BEFORE having sex. Heck, Planned Parenthood dispenses birth control pills like candy to any teenager that visits. Were MY daughter running around having unprotected sex often enough that she had either multiple abortions or multiple children, I'd be more concerned with her getting a disease that surely would cut her life short.
Besides, I've never been a slave...even when I was a SAHM. Melodrama and hyperbole do little to promote your cause. We've had a Republican president for nearly 8 years and a Republican senate for much of that time. I may be relatively sheltered out here on the farm with my chickens but the only "right" I've lost is the one that allows me to stab a healthy baby in the head and suck him out of my womb. As you folks are so fond of saying, I wasn't using that "right" anyway. Call me old fashioned, but I don't feel doomed to slavery because I can't stab a baby in the head.
Personally, I think your argument sounds about as intelligent as that of the renowned feminist philosopher, Cameron Diaz who said, "We have a voice now, and we're not using it, and women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. We could lo--if you think that rape should be legal, then don't vote..." Rock on sister!
Cindie
