Five of the existing and former GOP presidential candidates support policies that would make many forms of birth control illegal. Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Ron Paul have all signed on to the “Personhood Amendment” which would declare a fertilized egg, that has not implanted in the uterus, is a full person. Even Mitt Romney said in a Fox News interview with Mike Huckaby that he is in support of the “Personhood Amendment.”
Taken to its logical conclusion, every fertilized egg that does not implant in the uterus and is flushed from the body with the monthly cycle should have a funeral!
If such a policy were adopted it would make the pill and I.U.D. illegal, and perhaps many more popular forms of birth control would be unavailable to Americans. Birth control has been legal in the United States of America for close to a half-century, ever since the Supreme Court decided in 1965 that states do not have the right to ban birth control. In Griswold v. Connecticut, the U.S. Supreme Court reached a landmark decision that paved the way for recognition that birth control is basic health care for women.
The Left keeps telling the country that when the GOP says it wants “to take the country back,” that they really mean backward to what they see as the “Good Old Days”:
1) We could go back to the days of the Big Tycoons when the poor were destitute and children were forced to work to help pay the family bills. The GOP plans for the economy would make the growing inequality worse with their even deeper tax cuts for the already wealthy and the elimination of our social safety-net. And let’s not forget that Newt Gringrich has a plan to “eliminate the ridiculous child labor laws” (his words);
2) They revere the days when corporations worked their employees 7 days a week for low wages. The GOP historically has hated the minimum wage and is right now frantically union-busting across the nation in states that they control. Let’s not forget that it was the labor unions that brought us “the weekend” and safety on the job;
3) The GOP looks back to the good old days when corporations and Wall Street faced zero oversight, which drove our national economy into the Big Depression. The GOP presidential candidates are actually running for office advocating for financial deregulation. Not sure that anyone really thinks that it was a lack of financial regulations that caused our financial crisis;
4) And they reflect with nostalgia back to the days when women were kept in their place by eliminating the right to a safe and legal abortion. They all advocate for overturning Roe v. Wade and now they offer the last century idea of restricting access to birth control.
Barefoot and pregnant … here we go again! Let’s take our country back? Wow.
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