This is the comment I just received on my FB page after I posted a link to the Pending Tennessee Bill (Life Defense Act of 2012/HB3808) that would publish doctor's names/addresses and identifying information about women undergoing legal abortion procedures.
This is the mentality of the WOMEN of the Republican Party who are falling in line with all the backward-trending laws being proposed in state legislatures all across the country. I just want to give a little glimpse into the mind of a Republican Evangelical Woman.
Here is the entire excange:
GOP Woman:"I think they are just trying to make it less comfortable for women to kill their babies. Thinking perhaps they might be more careful to use birth control? The goal is to prevent deaths, not to embarrass anyone. The woman has the RIGHT TO CHOOSE which way to go."
ME: "Less comfortable for women to kill their babies"? You seriously said that. You seriously believe that it is "comfortable" for any woman to make that choice? As far as birth control, how are women supposed to use it when the Party you are obviously aligned with wants to take access to contraception away from women? Unbelievable.
GOP Woman: "Don't fall for the media's distortions. The ONLY women affected by the contraception discussion are those who choose to get their insurance through Catholic institutions. Baptists, Jews, or Athiests are not affected at all. The Catholic institutions NEVER DID offer contraception (because they believe it is a sin), so NO ONE had their contraception taken away, not one person. Only an idiot (useful idiot for the campaign strategists) would submit to such an institution, and then complain about their practices. Are you going to go to a Kosher deli and then complain because you cannot get a ham sandwich? Same thing. Please look into it. (BTW, condoms are free without making Catholics pay for them.)
Do you seriously think that this woman who chose to get insurance through a Catholic institution had her contraception taken away when they have ALWAYS thought it was wrong? Think it through. Look it up. You are being played for the sake of election year politics. Your own party is deceiving you and using you. (And you want more of them?) I would give you a link, but you might not trust the source, so look it up on your own. She NEVER had contraception through them (no one did), so NO ONE had it taken away. Ad hominem attacks are common when a person cannot argue from the facts.
GOP Woman Starts to Unhinge:"BTW, the constitution does not allow the government to force its religious beliefs (contraception) on others. I also think the publishing of personal info is probably an invasion of privacy, but they seem to be doing everything they can to try to discourage women from using abortion as birth control. It is telling how you jumped from the abortion issue straight to contraception. How about killing newborns? How about partial birth abortion? How about killing old people? Where do you draw the line? Does the line move? What ever happened to Thou shalt not murder? You can join 50 Catholic organizations, but if you believe killing babies is okay, you are no Catholic, and you deceive yourself."
It seems to me that all these barbaric bills, introduced from sea to shining sea, have been timed to explode like IEDs all around the country. Pundits and pollsters have seemed flummoxed that GOP Women are voting for Santorum and seemingly in favor of these medievil policies. Well, that's because they ARE voting for it, because they believe in it.
Never think we don't have a battle on our hands. We do.
I'm fairly sure this issue has been covered here, and this has been featured on MSNBC all day, but if you are wondering WTF is happening in Tennessee, read more below the orange squiggly.
A Bill being voted upon today in the Tennessee State Legislature would require the publication of the names of doctors who perform abortions to a website. It would also require the following information about the woman receiving abortion to be published to a website: age, marital status, prior births, prior abortions, etc.
http://www.latimes.com/...
"Although the bill states that patients will not be identified in the reports, it says the documents must include the woman's county, age, race, marital status, plus her number of prior pregnancies, number of prior abortions, the gestational age of the fetus, and her preexisting medical conditions. That, critics say, could make it easy to guess identities, particularly in sparsely populated rural areas."
http://www.tennessean.com/...
"The Life Defense Act contains two parts. The first would require doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital near where they perform abortions, while the second would require the Department of Health to release more information on abortions, including the name of the doctor who performed the procedure and demographics about the women who receive them."