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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Fri Oct 12, 2012, 12:00 AM Oct 2012

We Must Remember That The Abortion Issue Is Not Just About That It Is Also ----

about access to contraception. Not only do the GOP and churches want to limit access they want to make it illegal or unavailable. Look at the long term logic. They seriously want to have a women arrested and jailed for having an abortion. They also want to treat contraception like drugs. Some GOP'pers have even proposed the death penalty or life in prison for exercising your rights.

Personhood would certainly make almost all forms of contraception basically illegal. And remember as well the churches and particularly the Catholic church are agains ALL MEANS OF FAMILY PLANNING. That means even mechanical means as well.

Most Americans do not realize how extreme the GOP position is on these matters. In their eyes the woman must submit to the man's wishes in ALL cases.

Women must take their intentions very seriously. The laws in Virginia should be an example of what they want to do all over the country. And they do support a NATIONAL PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT. We know Paul Ryan does.

Remember that GOP candidates have also supported covenant marriages that you cannot get out of. They also have proposed making divorce impossible. And they have also proposed laws forcing counseling on spouses before they divorce.

What part of small government is this? It is bullshit that has to be challenged to their face and they must be forced to back down. These folks will never give up until we harass and rout them in some way.

They have been pushing this agenda for over 40 years now and have vowed to never quit. So it really is a cultural war. And in war the enemy must surrender unconditionally and retreat from the field. And I think their agenda is that serious.

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We Must Remember That The Abortion Issue Is Not Just About That It Is Also ---- (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Oct 2012 OP
That's A Point I've Been Making Elsewhere Vogon_Glory Oct 2012 #1
I must say, speaking as a person of SheilaT Oct 2012 #2

Vogon_Glory

(9,125 posts)
1. That's A Point I've Been Making Elsewhere
Fri Oct 12, 2012, 12:10 AM
Oct 2012

That's a point I've been making elsewhere. The abortion issue, for all its fire and passion, is really about social reactionaries trying to restrict access to birth control and gynecological health care. The abortion issue is a false flag--the REAL agenda of the Radical Right is to keep women from having access to birth control. The reactionaries believe that lack of access to contraceptives will mean that unmarried couples will stop having sex and that uppity women will go home and have babies like social reactionaries think they ought to.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
2. I must say, speaking as a person of
Fri Oct 12, 2012, 12:19 AM
Oct 2012

the female gender, I get enraged when persons whose biology means they will never get pregnant, think they should make decisions for me in regards to such things.

Maybe women should all be in charge of whether or not men get Viagra, or prostate screening.

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