Here’s how Christina Page addresses this question: [1]
- 98 percent of American women have done it.
- 37 million Americans are currently doing it.
- Most of the GOP candidates oppose it.
What is it?
“It” is using birth control. The GOP candidates have made it clear that they oppose the right of women to choose abortions.
The GOP candidates have not yet been forced to explain their generally ridiculous positions on this incredibly important issue of whether birth control should be freely available to consenting adults. It’s time for this free ride to end. They should be forced to take a position. Why? Honesty on this issue will reveal their ambitions to destroy additional personal liberties in order to hang onto the votes of fundamentalist zealots (I know that this is redundant). Here’s how Page explains her position:
These guys [GOP candidates] may try to outdo each other on anti-abortion rhetoric and explain, unflinchingly, how doctors will be thrown in jail when Roe fails (an inevitability in their minds). But it’s the contraception question that really scares them. Because once the presidential debate focuses on how the candidates plan to alter the average American’s sex life (made possible thanks to family planning) it is lifted from the pink ghetto of “woman’s issues” and becomes a concern of male voters too.
For more evidence regarding the prevalent GOP position that birth control should not be freely available to American adults, see these previous DI posts:
Beware Claims of Pregnancy Resource Centers [2]
The Bush administration relishes unplanned pregnancies – new evidence. [3]
Focus of religious organization: Ban all birth control [4]
Bush’s new head of family-planning programs opposes birth control [5]
Protecting pharmacists who refuse to fill valid prescriptions for legal drugs [6]
Those abstinence-only programs are really bringing down the teen pregnancy rate . . . or are they? [7]
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