The Republican WAR On Reproductive Rights Has WOMEN FLEEING The GOP

[Segami]

"...Republican presidential primary candidates;
...dumber than we thought they were...


With the GOP Presidential primary candidates, this current reproductive rights flap started with Planned Parenthood, took a turn to a woman’s right to choose and now has gone full circle with their unanimous opposition to contraception whether its through the candidates statements or the stand up comedy of their ancient surrogates, one of whom advises women to keep their legs together by pressing an aspirin between their knees. WOW! No doubt about it. It’s the boy’s War On Women. So ladies, gear up for a 50’s redux…18 years of chasing 10 kids around the house while papa flees the scene for the comfort of his workplace.



I want no misunderstanding here. Pregnancy is a hard slog, but women are of such courage and love, that, in the end, it’s all more than worth it for a beautiful baby girl or boy. But should the life-altering circumstance of pregnancy be a constant in the life of a woman who may not want 10 kids; who may only want two children, or maybe none? Here’s a wonderful solution that wise pundits have offered up for decades to educate men about the dynamics of women’s reproductive choices. Let the man have the baby. Then revisit all of the idiocy they so steadfastly defend.



Physiologically, it will never be possible for a male to deliver a baby, but in the alternative, let’s gauge how much pain a women goes through in a delivery and develop a procedure to replicate that pain for men. Maybe modern medicine could duplicate the birth experience for men with the passing of a kidney stone in combination with threading a pencil through the urethra. Now, we’re getting somewhere. And let’s do it every year or so for 7 or 8 years or more. For a really authentic male reality show, add 9 months of nausea and other annoying, painful and sometimes life-threatening side effects such as hemorrhaging and preeclampsia, plus excessive weight gain in some cases. Even after the baby is born and taken home there remains the possibility of postpartum depression and problems reversing that weight gain.



That’s what Republican Presidential Primary candidate, Santorum wants women to do. Not just his wife, but all women. Because Rick knows best and his faith informs all of his secular reproductive decisions no matter that 99% of women have used contraceptives at some point in their lives. Apparently, depending on his mood, Mitt Romney agrees with Santorum on reproductive issues. On other occasions he shows a glimmer of common sense and respect for women. We already know that Newt Gingrich sees women solely as objets d’sex so he has nothing to offer on the subject. As for Ron Paul, you may add his hatred of the federal government to death and taxes as the only things certain in life. Paul would hand all contraception decisions over to the states, overriding the definitive 1965 Supreme Court ruling on the issue, Griswold v. Connecticut. The court ruled the state’s ban on contraceptives to be an unconstitutional infringement on the right to marital privacy. In large measure the same right of privacy that locks Roe v. Wade into place, along with a half-dozen other constitutional guarantees.


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http://www.politicususa.com/en/women-flee-gop


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[Auntie Bush]

1. Yes, Let men suffer just some of those problems suffered by women and

I assure you the birth rate would go down. Men couldn't take it!

[DCKit]

5. A week off work every 28 days? I'm sure our employers woud understand....

But, if that were the case, I don't think we'd be running things.

That would suck, a lot. We're really used to privilege.

[RC]

2. And as a man who has had kidney stones, I do not understand why

a woman would want to give birth to more than one child.

In fact being present at the birth to all my children, I don't understand why they would decide they want more than one child.

[Warpy]

3. Because after all the months of discomfort and the painful hard labor

at the end, they've got this wonderful baby in their arms.

After a kidney stone, all you have is an ugly memory and a large bill for services rendered.

[immoderate]

7. They should let you keep the kidney stone.

Jus' kiddin'

-imm

[Scootaloo]

10. "I think I'll call him... Rocky!" n/t

[Warpy]

12. Ever see one? They're not terribly impressive

for the amount of pain they cause as they pass through, just tiny pieces of red gravel.

Gallstones are similarly unspectacular, tiny pieces of yellow gravel. A really bad gallbladder has enough of them to be full of sludge.

[immoderate]

15. Maybe they are just being modest.

--imm

[jeff47]

8. They've found various processes that alter a woman's memory of childbirth

Usually, she doesn't remember it as being as painful as it was. "Sure, it hurt, but it wasn't that bad" kind of thing.

It's likely this evolved so that women would have more than one child.

[Brigid]

4. According to Bill Cosby, Carol Burnett said it best:

She described labor pains by saying, "Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head."

[The Doctor.]

6. Tell them that a man CAN carry a child to term if implanted,

and ask them if they'd be willing to do so themselves.

There's enough squirrely stuff on the internetz that they might believe it and reveal their true colors.

[jeff47]

9. Assuming a C-section for delivery, there isn't anything that prevents a man from carrying a child

There's a very rare form of ectopic pregnancy where the fertilized egg goes completely the wrong way and attaches to random tissue outside the uterus/Fallopian tubes. Such babies can develop just fine. The main problem is a C-section is required for the baby to be born. (There's a host of other problems since the uterus is designed to be a good place for the baby to develop, but none of them are insurmountable with modern medicine.)

Theoretically, you could implant a fertilized egg into a man's abdominal region and it would develop into a baby, delivered by c-section.

So saying a man can carry a baby isn't as empty of a threat as some right-wingers might think.

[xxqqqzme]

11. How/where is the

umbilical cord attached in a male?

[jeff47]

13. To whatever tissue the egg embeds in

The placenta doesn't require a uterus to form. In the ectopic pregnancies I mentioned above, the placenta was attached to the intestines.

[HopeHoops]

14. And the problem would be....