It's been quite a while since I wrote a blog. But I just can't resist after listening to the Republicans the last few days. Don't they know that what they are doing, i.e. contraception is only going to alienate women. (I'll write about the others later.)
In Virginia Gov. McDonnell had planned to require a very invasive procedure for women - all women who are pregnant and want an abortion. On the other hand Rick Santorum doesn't want any contraception at all.. Romney is against all birth control as is Ron Paul and the ex-Speaker of the House. Yet they want to stop all abortions and they want a smaller government. And they want women out of the workplace.
What's wrong with this picture! Stopping all contraception will increase the need for abortions. I guess we'll have to return to the back alley abortionists. A woman will not be in charge of her own body but will have to become in essence a 2nd class citizen, looking to her husband or a man for what she should do. But contraception isn't only for the woman who doesn't want a child at that time. It's also for medical reasons as Miss Fluke told the panel recently. And it certainly wouldn't make for smaller government. We'd have to put someone in almost every bedroom to make sure we are having sex only for procreation. And women would be controlled by men.
My thoughts are a little jumbled as I've not written a column of this type before, but I'll get better.
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