Birth Control Watch

I read a pretty scary Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun the other day which further convinced me that another four years of a Republican in the White House will be like a nuclear holocaust on our country. Cristina Page, the author of How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex, wrote a piece about the subtle, quiet movement against contraception. She points out the code the Republican presidential candidates are using to let the Christian right know they are against all forms of contraception. How far back in time do these fanatics want to go?

I really don't understand the opposition to birth control. I suppose no one should have sex without the goal of creating life. I wonder if husbands refrain from having sex with their pregnant wives. No need for it, right?

It's really scary to think that another Republican president could bring us all the way back to 1950. One more term and Roe v. Wade would surely be overturned. States are already doing as much as they can to reduce access to family planning, birth control and abortions. This is truly our most basic fight. If women can't have sovereignty over their own bodies, then half the country will be second class citizens. That's the Republican agenda as we speak.

We cannot tolerate this agenda and we cannot allow this minority of fanatic Christians determine the rights of half the country. We have to make sure that a Democrat wins the presidential election. I think we will, as the country is getting pretty tired of the mess the Republican agenda has left our country, but we can't take it for granted.

Check out Birth Control Watch. It's slightly fanatical in its own right, but has useful information.