Rachel Maddow – An Exercise in Fertility
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Currently all four Republican presidential candidates have taken an extreme stance on birth control. Birth control? Are we really arguing about women’s ability to plan their families in 2012? Yes. As Rachel Maddow points out in the spot on segment above, they are taking a stance on this issue that is even too extreme for the electorate in Mississippi.
Why has birth control become such an issue all of a sudden? I think Rachel hits the nail on the head that the beltway pundits are really missing the point on this one.
I realize that a lot of 60-something male pundits look at this and think it’s bad politics for the Democrats on the Catholic side. There is another way to look it.
That other way to look at it is as a woman. Novel concept! Except that it shouldn’t be, considering women have elected every president since JFK. Or another way to look at it could be as a Catholic woman, 98% of whom have used birth control.
In this economy, Rachel breaks it down to the bottom line.
Hey, women of America! Under a democratic president your birth control pills will be covered by health insurance, and if you don’t have health insurance you can go to a clinic and get subsidized birth control there. If a republican is elected your insurance won’t cover birth control, and if your insurance doesn’t cover it there are no clinics to go to any more to get birth control pills. Planned Parenthood defunded. Title 10 gone altogether. So you can’t get it from insurance, and you can’t get it from a clinic. You are paying cash, out of pocket, retail cost for birth control…$600 to $1200 a year. That’s if you’re lucky. Because if you’re not lucky, you live in a state where birth control has just been declared illegal. Do you want a democratic or republican president women of America?
February 8, 2012 at 11:28 am
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February 8, 2012 at 12:43 pm
And most importantly, we must not allow fanatics to rule our lives. Essentially what the pro-lifer is saying here because they believe in the rights of that blob in woman’s uterus, despite it’s absurdity, all others–no matter what they believe–must obey them.
For men,, suppose a group of fanatic Muslims demand that a law be passed to criminalize the drinking of alcohol because it offends them. It scare’s me to know that there are creatures who can become emotionally worked up over the contents of a stranger’s uterus
February 8, 2012 at 11:25 pm
Exactly. It’s amazing to me that these religious conservatives can’t see that imposing their religious beliefs on others makes them no better than the religious extremists they wage war against.
They get ‘emotionally worked up’ over this issue because it’s about controlling women and their bodies. Plain and simple.