Excellent! "Why McCain should worry women"

[flvegan]

By Robyn E. Blumner, Times Columnist
Published March 9, 2008

Sen. John McCain wants people to know that he is a true conservative. The right flank of his party, particularly blowhards like Rush Limbaugh, want to paint McCain as a closet pinko because he only has an 82 percent rating with the American Conservative Union. But McCain insists that his conservative credentials speak for themselves.

Believe him. They do.

What scares me most about McCain, beyond our 100-year presence in Iraq, his itchy trigger finger relative to other foes, and his enthusiasm for tax cuts for the rich, is his fiercely conservative record on women's reproductive freedom. Here, there is no moderate McCain or reach-across-the-aisle McCain. On issues related to abortion and even birth control and sex education, McCain is as ideological as any Operation Rescue activist crawling around in front of an abortion clinic.

You want to know what's coming with a McCain presidency? How about the overturning of Roe vs. Wade. I'm not kidding. The latest case to reach the U.S. Supreme Court on abortion made it clear that the two newest justices, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, will vote for substantial incursions into abortion rights, if not their outright elimination. It turns out that Roe isn't a "super-duper" precedent after all. It's now hanging by the thread of 87-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens' continued vitality.

The next president will be the decider on whether women's emancipation from the slavery of the womb will continue in this country. We are on the cusp of losing the right to control our bodies and determine our family size. McCain promises as much.

http://www.sptimes.com/2008/03/09/Opinion/Why_McCain_should_wor.shtml

If you really seek to be disappointed by your fellow man, scroll down to the "Comments" part of the article.

[Oleladylib]

1. Ah, McCain the guy who had an affair while his first wife was ailing..not the same as Spitzer

but...one could make a case

[NewJeffCT]

2. McCain is a Republican, though

slime and sleaze are to expected.

he can just apologize and say it was a youthful indiscretion, even if he was 40+ at the time and he was a serial cheater...

Democrats, however, must be held to a higher standard.

[unpossibles]

3. holy crud!

doesn't take long, does it? This one doesn't even make sense:

When men require freedom from slavery of child support...will women be so keen on being dragged into the clinic to kill the baby? This is killing babies out of convenience. Men don't have the same right. This law allows women to kill helpless babies.

Is he saying that (a) men have no rights or say in the choice to have sex? Or perhaps that if women have to shoulder all of the financial burden of raising a child as well as the physical, they will be more apt to carry to term? What?!?

[LeftyMom]

4. These people scare me.

I don't think they'll win, but I do think that women should be thinking about backup plans for how they're going to manage if they do. Birth control via internet pharmacy, trips to mexico or canada, etc. For abortions, when they were illegal, out of the country was better, because so many of the doctors doing them illegally were doing other illegal things or took too many risks with women's health. Would it be easier, in these days of non-surgical early abortions, to keep a supply of the necessary meds (or at least one of the prescriptions that is known to induce miscarriage?) on-hand?

It bothers me that I have to devote serious brain-space to this shit. Maybe I should get a tubal.