"Selfish women backed Obama" LTTE from a Republican sore loser in today's paper!

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22. dear alice

It is hard for me to believe that a woman has no idea that being able to have the basic right to make medical decisions regarding their own bodies is also an economic choice. The republicans have made it very clear that they also want to ban birth control methods. I for one am glad that I did not have to produce a child everytime I had sex with my husband. After 20 years of marriage, I would be on at least my 20th kid, I kid you not. How egotistical of me to think 20 kids are more than we can handle financially. How positively fucking selfish of me to think that just because a womans body can produce a baby every 9 months [and 6 weeks] she should.

I can not imagine the economic impact it would have on the country when women are forced to be nothing more than baby making machines. To give you a clue: My mother had 3 daughters, if you combine our fertile years we would have produced at least 50 babies. Now out of those 50 babies, let's just say for arguements sake 25 of them were female. Those 25 females produced 20 children each. That equals 500. 250 of those are female and they have 20 kids.... How many generations would it take before farmland was wiped out? people do have to live somewhere. How would the corporations be able to handle the disposal of just the human waste? How long do you think it would be before epidemics of cholera, flu, and other diseases were the norm? Just for shits and giggles why don't you compare the economic wealth of country that have access to contraceptive measures to those who don't.


So Alice, in closing I would like to add; our choice did not set women back tremendously. It empowers us to participate in our country as full citizens. It empowers OUR country by not overproducing. It is your attitude that sets women back, back to they days when women were not allowed to own property, sign a legal contract, and VOTE.