Rubbers Unite!

What follows is a rebuttal I wrote to a conservative columnist who was taking the typical GOP puritanical stand on abortion and contraception, that is claiming Democrats are actually trying to control population for political gain? I hope the GOP keeps it up, Obama may be able to run for a third term!!!!

Here you go again. The front page of the Sacramento Bee, N.Y. Times; et al., carried a story that reports the GOP is getting clobbered by their infatuation with the contraception controversy. Women particularly are turning away from the GOP in large numbers over two things: the puritanical obsession with a contraception issue settled years ago, and invasive, brutal procedures GOP state legislatures are passing to discourage abortions.

I never could understand anti-abortion zealots who feel killing abortion providers is somehow Godly? Or, burning down an abortion clinic is God's will?

So, your party "values" committing political suicide, just as it is in California with your obsession with tax cuts trumping common sense. People do NOT agree with you and are not voting for you. But, like conservatives before you, the stubborness of fanatics is dooming you to political defeat after defeat.

Now, your article implies Democrats are using easy access to contraception for population manipulation somehow to build political power. You warn about becoming like Europe. Oh dear, we might have trains, and not be addicted to oil...save us!

Here is some political manipulation for you: The Catholic Church, many years ago, decided it could gain back the losses of the Protestant Reformation, by encouraging more Catholic births. So, an edict was issued to ban contraception for Catholic women.

This was not that effective in educated developed nations, where affluent women could still get contraceptives and quietly took them (98% of American Catholic women it is estimated have used some form of contraceptives; there is more than the "rhythm method" going on).

The story is tragically different in under developed nations. Large families are the norm, and it is also the norm that many of the children starve or die of disease before they can grow to adults. And then there is Africa, where local religious objections and culture forbit contraception, and millions of children are starving to death.

Did you ever see a child starve? If your bigoted, evil mind can gain pleasure in that, that God's will is being done, because we must be fruitful and multiply, then I pity your soul!

In short, the Catholic Church's selfish edicts on contraception, have caused untold suffering in the Third World. And the Bishops wring their hands telling us how much "charity" their church gives through their missionaries. Give me a break!

Virginia's abortion prevention plan, actually mandated a horribly invasive procedure, in all cases (even rape and incest) before a women could get an abortion. So a rape victim is medically raped by the state, so puritans like you can feel closer to God.

Ok, here is a news flash for you. God does not care if we use contraceptives. God's heart breaks if a woman gets an abortion, but he forgives. And, he will judge eventually us all. It is not our place to judge. It is not the state's place to decide reproductive issues for people. The difference in providing contraceptives for people is THEY DON'T HAVE TO USE THEM. Your party's approach is that the state knows best, it can keep contraceptives away from people, and it sure as hell can forbid abortions.

How in the world is this liberty???

So keep it up. Write a column a week about contraception and abortion, and then join the green party, because yours is going to be toast if you keep this up!