Just when you think the Republicans have learned their lesson when it comes to speaking about all the mystical goings on inside enchanted lady-wombs, here they go again, proving that they should just come forth and say that they really believe magic storks should bring babies down from Heaven or Nova Scotia, or Xanadu, whatever. Women, yeah, you need not apply.
We say this because we realize these men not only don’t care about the female involvement in deciding to create, sustain, or carry a child to term, but that’s just the tip of the ice berg — it would appear that they could really care less about the woman’s health or safety during the fussy, inconvenient act that should only serve to populate the world. If that woman happens to die on the table, so be it, since their “no exceptions” stance denies abortions in the case of risk to the mother’s life, rape, or incest. When it comes to creating a Handmaid’s Tale army of offspring the women are expendable. All three of these men believe that all abortions should be banned, without any exceptions. This goes to the very core of “Personhood” legislation that Todd Akin, Joe Walsh, and Paul Ryan support, including Mitt Romney, who supported the proposed Personhood Amendment wherein life is defined at conception, and all who obtain abortions could be charged with murder. So in effect, these men would be happy with legislation that would bully women into carrying a fetus to term. Not so surprising given some of the statements many at the top-tier of the GOP have been making lately with regard to women.
So in addition to that crazed, nutbag, Todd Akin and his claims about legitimate rape, Illinois Republican Joe Walsh adds to the funsack of lunacy with his statements about how “With modern technology and science, you can’t find one instance” of a woman being saved by a terminated pregnancy. First of all, why do these jackalopes keep interjecting science into their conversations as if they have any idea what they’re talking about? Not when you have Akin talking about how a “woman’s body can shut down during a legitimate rape” and now there’s Walsh extolling his expertise on what modern science can do, when throughout today, physicians have come forward and discussed the life-threatening risks of HELLP syndrome and eclampsia during pregnancy, of which The Preeclampsia Foundation cites 76,000 mothers die. In addition, there are also incidences of ectopic pregnancy when the embryo doesn’t implant in the uterus, which without treatment could lead to serious injury or death. There is no viable way to carry an ectopic pregnancy to term.
All of these facts fly in the face of the insensitive, misinformed rhetoric Walsh is spouting — to the point that it’s hard to believe that these people are actually either in positions of power, or vying to obtain more. It’ll be like being led by stunted high-school jocks who never attended a health & sexuality class because they’d miss the big game. Note this analogy is being gracious to Paul Ryan, lying marathon runner.
Hey, you three windbags, wanna know when most females learn about the dangers of ectopic pregnancy? Usually when we start menstruating and have “the talk” about menstruation, our anatomy, and childbearing. We’re told these things because they are a risk to women, and because we’re discussing our bodies and what happens therein.
The thing we wonder is if these three guys would ever let women have a say in what happens in their scrotums? If we could ever decide anything about their reproductive organs? If we’d get a vote on what they decide to do or not do with regard to their genetic material? If we could decide that their bodies should only be used for the sole purpose of procreation, everything else attached, mind and body, be damned? If we could ever say, “Oh, those weak men. They have no idea what’s really at stake here. We need to make decisions for them, because if not, well, the whole human race will suffer. Oh, the whims of those silly men who want equality and other laughable things. We know what’s best, like how we’ve got to make sure they’re home every night by 5pm to get dinner started, and are available for procreation whenever we want. And by golly if we can’t find some men that are worthy, well, we’ll just get out our index cards full of men and choose a few that fit the bill. Excuse us while we bray with the other women and propose legislation that won’t affect our bodies.”
This is a world that could exist?
