This week the Ohio House passed the so-called "heartbeat" bill which basically bans abortion and puts government in control of women's lives in the most intrusive way. Some state legislators felt so passionately about how essential it was that government dictate women's choices that they said things like this:
"The easiest way is also to look at it in the context of Nazi Germany, where during the 1920s, these were the arguments postulated by the proponents of abortion as the Third Reich was growing in power. Note they will sound very similar to you because they are exactly the same arguments put forth to support the current positions in support of the abortion laws as we have them on the books."
http://thinkprogress.org/....
(Never mind that the Third Reich essentially treated Germanic women as breeding stock and abortion was outlawed — except if you were the type they didn't want to reproduce, a perfect example of why government should butt out of this choice).
Now, would you be surprised would you be if I told you the source — Ohio state Rep. Robert Mecklenborg, husband, father of three, active in his Catholic parish, and a strong, "family values" proponent — was arrested in April in the middle of the night in a tiny Indiana town with a large casino, apparently drunk, with Viagra in his bloodstream and a young woman half his age and not his wife in the passenger seat?
http://www.clevescene.com/...
Oh – you're not?
Normally, this story might provoke a few chuckles and headshakes at how predictable it is that the most vocal and ignorant proponents of government regulating people's sex lives even while they claim to want "less government" seem to so frequently get into situations like this. But with three cruel and intrusive abortion bills passing the Ohio House this week, and five more in the pipeline, and with Ohio having banned gay marriage three times, it really isn't funny anymore. Someone who is running around the backroads of Indiana in the middle of the night with Viagra in his system and not-his-wife in the car has no moral authority to dictate the sex lives of Ohio women. Frankly, his vote should not count.
He of course says he's innocent. I mean, it's just so USUAL for 59-year-old married fathers of three to be running around after midnight in a casino town with a random young woman. I'm sure his parish priest would condone this, right?
And after he's found not innocent, he'll probably say it's "private" and to "leave his family alone."
Well, you know what else, Mr. Mecklenborg? A woman's decision to have or not have a child is "private" and maybe you should just be leaving Ohio families alone by staying out of their business and not using specious comparisons to Nazi Germany to condemn those whose ideas on abortion are the polar opposite of Nazi Germany's.
An interesting aspect of the story is that it was first reported by various media outlets in Ohio yesterday — more than two months after the incident occurred. I have no idea what that means. Maybe IOKIYAR?