Some thoughts on the GOP's war on Women

[Va Lefty]

I keep thinking that all the arguments I hear are predicated with the idea that Women need to be protected. The wingnuts what to protect them from making a grievous decision that will leave them wracked with guilt for the rest of their lives. Our side often frames its arguments in saying they want to protect Women from invasive procedures. Perhaps, Women are looking for honest information about what the consequences of their decision will be instead of "protection." I feel the same about drug education and sex education. We hear so much about "protecting" our kids from drugs and sex. Much more can be accomplished with a honest discussion of the issues than attempting to misinform/scare. Just my 2 cents

[gratuitous]

1. One that's occurred to me

In the flap over insurance coverage of birth control, it seems that what's really giving some folks the willies is the idea that women will make their own health choices. When the matter of going on the pill is between the woman and her doctor with insurance covering the choice, the busybodies are left out of the decision. You see the same thing in the RU-486 or the morning after pill discussion. It's never really said out loud, but the idea that women don't have to run through some gauntlet to get a prescription, like they literally do in going to some clinics, just drives the busybodies off their collective nut.

[Va Lefty]

2. Excelllent read here

http://www.alternet.org/sex/154144/how_contraception_is_changing_human_history_--_and_why_we%27ll_still_be_fighting_about_it_100_years_from_now

"But perhaps most critically for us right now: mass-produced, affordable, reliable contraception has shredded the ages-old social contracts between men and women, and is forcing us all (willing or not) into wholesale re-negotiations on a raft of new ones.

And, frankly, while some men have embraced this new order— perhaps seeing in it the potential to open up some interesting new choices for them, too — a global majority is increasingly confused, enraged, and terrified by it. They never wanted to be at this table in the first place, and they’re furious to even find themselves being forced to have this conversation at all."

[fascisthunter]

3. notice how the right wing is at war with everybody?

Women, liberals, moderates, homosexuals, minorities, foreigners, etc. These people are sick.

[justiceischeap]

4. Don't forget the unemployed

underemployed, atheists, people who breathe...

[fascisthunter]

5. they are crazy

[Warpy]

6. Lying to kids about sex and drugs never works.

The kids find out and dismiss everything they've ever said as a lie, even if there was truth in some of it. They've just blown their chance to educate them in how not to be destroyed.

Way to go, good job.