McCain’s Classic Cringing Stance on Reproductive Freedom

freedom.jpgFREEDOM!! Yeah, Mel. You go, boyfriend. I’d like to think you really do love freedom. But sadly, you and your ultra-Christian friends do not. What’s still the coolest thing about being American? We love freedom. Remember that when you go to the polls because McCain, as Carly Fiorina so accidentally pointed out, is a scary throwback when it comes to Reproductive Rights.

Let me give you a real, live example, which I’ve been hearing a lot about from women. There are many health insurance plans that will cover Viagra but won’t cover birth control medication. Those women would like a choice,” [Carly Fiorina] said.

But as the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America was happy to point out, McCain twice voted against measures that would have required insurance companies to cover birth control — in 2003 and 2005.

If you haven’t given this much thought, perhaps because you’re a man who’s never been pregnant, now’s the time. Having the right to determine what happens to your own body is about as fundamental a freedom as you can get. I do see the logic, flawed though it is, in preserving the rights of the fetus. After the first trimester that is. The part that sends me into a pissed off tizzy is that this also guarantees freedom for men: freedom from accountability, freedom from financial and cultural responsibility, freedom to go around humping women without a second thought to the consequences. I have always said FEEL FREE TO MAKE ABORTION ILLEGAL THE DAY YOU ALSO PASS A LAW REQUIRING THE FATHER TO PROVIDE 50% OF ALL CHILDCARE, CHILD NURTURING, FINANCIAL SUPPORT, AND LIVE WITH THE MOTHER AND CHILD FOR THE NEXT 18 YEARS OF THE CHILD’S LIFE. Because let’s face facts. The men are off the hook. Why do the religious conservative groups think that it’s okay to punish the women by making them keep the baby, but let the men run off and do it again?? Well, I guess women are the evil downfall of the planet in the first place (according to the parts of the Bible emphasized by mean people) and deserve to be abandoned with baby. Adoption you say? Yes. It’s an option. So then I say the man would have to live with the pregnant woman for one year while she manages the pregnancy and goes through the legal and emotional struggle of giving the baby up. I’m okay with that.

People. Let’s be reasonable!! If you are going to be anti-abortion then for the love of all sane thought please distribute birth control like you do junk mail: make it ubiquitous and readily available. Remove the shame-factor when discussing and educating kids. Would it be so bad for children to know they have control over this huge issue? The more birth control we have available the less abortion. Do I need to repeat that? THE MORE BIRTH CONTROL WE HAVE AVAILABLE THE LESS ABORTION.

McCain’s views on this issue are so out-of-touch with real people’s. Bush, too, (“Birth Control Pills are Abortion”) but I’m trying my hardest to pretend he’s already out of office. Aaaaagh, get out already!51tbtiqevpl_sl500_aa240_.jpg

In discussions with conservatives and liberals alike, many voiced the opinion that they would not choose a candidate based solely on his/her opinions about abortion. Okay, that’s cool. But there’s a gnawing worry that I can’t shake. If it’s so easy to take away a woman’s right to choose, it’s going to be pretty easy to take away your other rights, too. I’ve had about enough of that. What about you?

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July 22, 2008 | Filed Under Election '08 

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