Thursday, February 24, 2011

The War on Women

What the heck does abortion have to do with creating jobs??  And what the heck does the Republican party have against women?  Speaker Boehner is supposed to be working on creating jobs for all those Americans that supposedly voted for him to do so.  Instead he is taking us back to the '70's to try to outlaw abortion?  And why are we letting all these old men tell us what we can & can't do with our bodies? 
Do these people (I know it's not all old men, it's some very uninformed women too) realize what this country would be like without Planned Parenthood and WIC??  I was watching The View just now, yes I watch it every day despite Elizabeth's ignorant rants, and Rep. Gwen Moore made a very good comment about how Planned Parenthood has actually prevented more abortions than they have performed.  That is so true.  They provide many more health care services for a lot of women who wouldn't otherwise be able to receive that care.  They provide cancer screenings, birth control and in a lot of cases they are a woman's primary health care provider.  They provide safe low cost or maybe even free health care for low income women.  And these people who complain they don't want there tax money going to fund abortions.  Well, there is a law that prevents federal funding of abortions.  OK, I don't want my tax dollars funding stupid wasteful military actions in the Middle East.  Why can't we have a law about that?
And what about WIC?  How can you defund that?  WIC is sometimes all there is between having healthy food to eat and dying of starvation. 
I am sick to death of these so called Christian right wingers calling themselves Christian and then turning around and kicking the less fortunate.  So, you prevent some abortions.  What are you going to do to help those mothers and children once they are born?  How can you say you are Pro Life when you kill Dr's and believe in the death penalty and war? 
What would Jesus do?  He would turn over all your tables in the market place and yell at you and tell you you have no idea what His Father is about or how to love your fellow human beings.
I have to stop now before I forget I am supposed to love my fellow human beings.