This nonsense right here. Contraception is not just the purview of (what these dudes imagine as) slutty teenagers and college girls, the thoughts of whom they most likely beat off to every night. Nice married (OMG, church-going!) women depend on birth control pills, implants, IUDs, and so forth as well. Let's say, conservatively, that the average woman spends 30 years of her life both fertile and sexually active. Let's say that average woman has two children, both of whom she spent three months trying to conceive, and both of whom she nursed for 6 months (not that you're supposed to count that as contraception, I hasten to add.) Let's say neither she nor her spouse gets surgically taken care of post the second baby and they stay married to each other. Okay, maybe that's not average anymore, but stay with me. Let's say that before she enters into her long-lasting marriage the woman has a couple of dry spells in between relationships.
This woman will need some sort of birth control for 25 years.
Not to mention that many many many women are on hormonal birth control even if they're not sexually active or with fertile partners, just to regulate their hormones/menstrual periods. (Does the Pope oppose that, too?)
But, no, birth control pills just exist so loose skanks who don't know how to keep their legs closed don't get knocked up with 15 illegitimate children. Wait. Are we supposed to want loose skanks to have 15 illegitimate children? Yo, Republicans? Wouldn't that cost taxpayer dollars somehow somewhere?
In summary, if you do not now or have not ever possessed a uterus and a coupla ovaries, shut the fuck up about women's shit. Thank you.
Bastards.
xoxo
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Your favorite Catholic male leading presidential contender yesterday came out against requiring health insurance to pay for pre-natal tests.
He also came out against "government-controlled schools", i.e. public education. I suppose that's intended to keep women barefoot and home in the kitchen after they get pregnant (due to making contraception unaffordable and/or illegal) in order to home school their kids until they're 18. Or can be sold off to a factory, whichever comes first, I guess.
I'm guessing this in Santorum's economic plan: lowering male unemployment by taking all child-bearing women out of the workforce for a couple decades.
Oh, and Santorum thinks that Obama has an "incorrect theology" which is, I guess, codeword for being Muslim.
I wonder what the codword is for being Mormon?
Dude! Turning back on anonymous comments fixed OpenID. Of course, I've already gotten spam again, LOL.
M2 and I were absolutely chortling and high-fiving over Santorum getting the nom yesterday. Welcome back to your second term, Mr Obama :-)
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