Some days I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It isn't bad enough that an artichoke like Mike Huckabee feels impelled to instruct women on the proper use of their bodies and their reproductive functions, stating that anyone who supports a woman’s right to determine how many children she should have and when is exploiting her. Here comes Reince Priebus, the chief mouth without a brain for the Republican establishment, objecting not to the ideas or the disrespect of Mr. Huckabee’s pronouncements only to the language and tone. Question: do these people really believe that the feminine mind is so addled, so soft and spongy that we will accept any amount of castor oil if enough honey is available to sweeten the taste?
Contraception has been a woman’s option for decades. It is also a well regarded treatment for some
gynecological problems. While the Huckabees,
Limbaughs and others insist that religious organizations shouldn't have to
provide insurance for contraception in the female, I have yet to hear the same
argument with regard to insurance coverage for vasectomies. Nor have I heard that male birth control leads to sexual
excess. Clearly men are considered
mentally stable, morally sound and intellectually well grounded enough to make
these choices for themselves while their sisters only want “Uncle Sugar” to
make promiscuousness possible for every woman of child bearing years. Welcome back to the first half of the
Twentieth Century ladies.
With regard to a woman’s right to choose a safe abortion, I
have said before and will say again that the choice in this argument is crystal
clear. We have always had abortion on
demand in this country. We do it in hospitals
now instead of garages. If the procedure
is made illegal by the overreaching of some legislators or by overturning Roe
v. Wade, we go back to the garage. In
effect some women will be sentenced to death in piss filled alleys for being
unwilling to carry a child that they can’t feed or that was conceived through
rape or incest. Still other women will become nothing more
than incubators bringing a pregnancy to term at the cost of their own lives.
Why do political ideologues who demonstrate an overt and maniacal
hatred of the poor and the Working Class, who consider school lunches, Medicare
for sick children and public education an insupportable drain on the economy of
the richest nation in the world insist upon forcing people to have more
children then they can possibly care for decently? Could it be because the overburdened soon become
the overworked, the undereducated and the hungry? Is all
of Mr. Huckabee’s verbal emesis and Mr. Priebus’ frantic attempt to cover it up
rather than clean it up a program aimed at creating a two class society? That of lords and serfs, aristocrats and
servants where the vast majority of people work for whatever is tossed at them
because they are too exhausted, demoralized and exploited to insist upon decent
treatment and wages. Not unlike some of
the countries where we send American jobs.
Don’t let these people fools you. This is not about religion or moral rectitude;
although it wouldn't be the first time that religion, or the pretense of faith,
has been used as a lash by divine right of the rich and powerful. This is about self interest. Their God is green. Their liturgy is greed and avarice. Christian my ass, they are vampires sucking
the life’s blood out of this Republic.
