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The Republican War on Women, Reprise 0

Gail Collins, riffing one John Kyl’s mendacity, thinks that there’s a hidden agenda in the rightwing fury over abortion: To keep ’em barefoot and pregnant.

A nugget:

Beyond the science, there’s the fact that many social conservatives are simply opposed to women having sex without the possibility of procreation.

(snip)

The reason this never comes up in the debates about reproductive rights is that it has no popular appeal. Abortion is controversial. Contraception isn’t. A new report by the Guttmacher Institute found that even women who are faithful Catholics or evangelicals are likely to rely on the pill, IUDs or sterilization to avoid pregnancy.

What we have here is a wide-ranging attack on women’s right to control their reproductive lives that the women themselves would strongly object to if it was stated clearly. So the attempt to end federal financing for Planned Parenthood, which uses the money for contraceptive services but not abortion, is portrayed as an anti-abortion crusade. It makes sense, as long as you lay off the factual statements.

Dick Polman has more on the lies. Another nugget:

Mike Pence said that targeting Planned Parenthood is crucial because “we’ve got to keep our word to the American people.” Defunding the group, he says, “represents the will of the American people.”

Really? By what measure does the move against Planned Parenthood represent “the will of the American people” – given the fact that the people never voted in ’10 for this morality crusade, and that the polls contradict Pence’s claim?

The guy is just making stuff up. Or perhaps he didn’t intend it as a factual statement.

In Wingnut World, “just making stuff up” may be a family value.

Not in my family.

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