There is a reason for linking the article, but it's not all about how bored many of us are who don't spend our lives on Twitter. I'll get to the point in a moment after setting the stage...
The 2012 campaign remains on the social ideology road when it involves the GOP. Newt Gingrich loves to remind his audience that Mitt Romney, when Gov of Massachusetts, set many progressive-based laws in motion such as Healthcare for the state, and contraception at Catholic hospitals for victims of rape. Good for Mitt! It's extremely sad that the man has to pretend to be someone he is not: A True Conservative! In order for Mr. Perfect to gain the votes he needs from members of his own party, he must denounce almost everything socially/culturally decent he did in the past.
Too bad he continues to step on his own shiny shoes with remarks such as "I like to fire people" (taken slightly out of context), and the now infamous "I'm not concerned about the poor..." The guy just doesn't have that "populist" touch that endears the naive and hopeful to vote for someone they believe has a heart.
However, beyond the constant political Twitterings mentioned in the above-linked article, what I find to be the essence of the in-fighting between Newt, Rick Sanctimonious and Mitt, is the way in which all hide behind the threat of ending Legal Contraception via religious reasons and "family values" rhetoric. The GOP with the dripping wet tea bags hanging around in the House Chamber to bring down America and return the country to The Wild West, are a disgrace to common sense when it involves human reproduction (or not).
Where does the Bible say that aborting a fetus is against God's Law? If I'm correct, God spent a great deal of time trying to lure his truest believers to kill their children as well as to procreate with their children and close relatives. Conflicting messages? Yes, of course there are. The Bible has a different sounding God in almost every chapter in both the Old and New Testaments. One moment he's pissed as hell and destroys a city; another he's being jealous if someone bows down to a "graven image" other than his own (I thought God was "bigger" than such petty egoism).
Elsewhere in the text(s), God is completely cool. He is kind and gentle and loving - all that "Godly" and "Holier-than-thou" 'tude 'cuz he's experiencing the Bliss of Heaven! No kiddie killings and everyone, stop sleeping-around! You have no idea the infections you'll get otherwise.... Okay. That may have gone too far for some, but wouldn't God want his flock to avoid STD'S without antibiotics?
Anyhow, as it were, so to speak, I don't care what any book says about whether a woman should or should not have the right to decide what she wants to happen to her body. It certainly makes sense that it would be against most laws to abort if the civilization was dying and needed to ensure the life of its inhabitants. It would be reasonable if our entire planet was in danger of human extinction. Then it would be more than a bit difficult for a woman to say "No" to following through on her pregnancy.
But our modern world is teeming with humans. Our planet is overcrowded. We are in danger of ruining the planet because there are too many people requiring too much food, tossing too much waste into the oceans...and all that goes with overpopulation.
The argument for and against abortion, as well as the use of contraception, is well-documented by people with far more statistics in their head than I will ever care to store in my database. I won't fight the fight beyond slinging a few words around to get to my primary point: We are now far enough along in the "be fruitful and multiply" message to grasp that it is a Woman's Choice, not anyone else's, for what will happen to a pregnancy (or to avoid one). More than that, forcing women who are victims of rape and incest to spend 9 months of their lives living with a daily reminder of what may have been the worst moment in their life is Barbaric.
So Newt and Rick and others. Until you grow your own wombs and find yourself slammed against a wall where some grizzly guy will force his always-there-weapon-of-choice into your sacred space, I suggest all of you STFU!
Spare me the religious platitudes on this one.
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