GOP: Against contraception.

[feuervogel]

Other feminists and I have been saying for YEARS that the GOP anti-abortion crowd was really itching to ban regular old contraception (by equating the Pill with abortion), as well as dog-whistling against women's basic autonomy and humanity, but now they've come out and said it.

”They’ve called it preventative medicine. Preventative medicine,” said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, on the House floor last month, shortly after the Obama administration adopted the recommendations of an expert panel and agreed to add contraceptives to a list of services insurance plans will be required to provide without a deductible or copayment. “Well, if you apply that preventative medicine universally, what you end up with is you’ve prevented a generation. Preventing babies from being born is not medicine.”

You can't be for small government AND for government intervention in the most personal decisions any woman of childbearing age has to make. It's sheer hypocrisy. Unless your true aim is to establish male supremacy and take women's rights back two thousand years, of course.

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[kipple-n-bits.livejournal.com]

o_O Just wow.

And yeah, I think any pretense at the GOP being for "small government" went out the window decades ago. Just a flavor of authoritarian.

[feuervogel]

Ron Paul is this same flavor of authoritarian. I don't know why libertarians keep defending that hypocrite.

[corpsefairy.livejournal.com]

Because he says some things that they agree with, and little things like women's rights aren't important enough to let him go.

Hell, he says some things that I agree with, namely that we ought to get out of these wars. Doesn't mean I'd ever in a million years vote for him, though.

[feuervogel]

Right, because The Holy Market will sort out that sort of silly stuff like women's rights and racial equality. And for most libertarians (white, straight, well-off men), it doesn't affect them, so they dgaf.

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

I have no words for the fail.

[feuervogel]

Right? And there are still people out there who refuse to acknowledge that this is what the GOP stands for: authoritarian, anti-woman, Christian theocracy.

[pharna.livejournal.com]

So glad I left the USA.... Even the shit right wing here still understands basic science and leave medicine to doctors.

[tiurin.livejournal.com]

It's not hypocrisy if one honestly assumes that life begins at conception. That has other forms of fail, but I don't think hypocrisy is one of them.

Of course, there's the question of how many Republicans actually believe that, and how many who don't are actually self-aware enough to be consciously trying to establish male supremacy, which may be an interesting question.

[feuervogel]

Unconsciously trying to establish male supremacy is still pretty bad...

[pharna.livejournal.com]

They have consciousness? ;p

[a-nightengale.livejournal.com]

The GOP has been waging a war against women for a long time. It's just more out in the open now. And yeah, they're all about punishing women for having sex, plain and simple.