@DrewDad,
This birth control issue is an obvious example of reactionary over reaching, much like that leading up to the American Civil War... If you look at the situation objectively, there was no reason for the South to react to the election of a republican president as they did when it was their own reaction to abolition that made his election possible... They wanted a hard core, slavery at all cost, scorched earth, no prisoner approach that Douglas would not give them, and to his credit, Lincoln in the debates had forced him to compromise himself... But if they had offered only a single candidate for office they would have won, and instead had to offer not one, but two, because the radicals could find in Douglas no one as pure and uncompromising as themselves... Why did they do it??? Just as republicans today have everything going for them, the ante-bellum democrats had everything going for them... All the elements that play into republican control of government, their unity, their intransigence before compromise, the ignorance and fears of the people, the prejudice, zenophobia, and zenelasia they play upon, and the faith of the people in their religious leaders all give them an edge, and have pushed the nation further and further right...
I think the hatred the republicans show women is the same hatred they hold for all the weak people of America, and at heart it is contempt...The idea that they must avoid offending voters does not occur to them because it is being offensive that they have gained power... They want the world, and they want the country, and they mean to have it, and think they have the strength to take it with force, and this is no less than the situation as conceived by the democrats of the old South... What is the point of civility with a person you mean to defeat and drive into destitution???
Rush may be an idiot, but he is their idiot, and not one of them will call him out.. He speaks, in fact, for the vast majority of republicans, so the candidates cannot live without him... This attack on women's rights is genuine... And if you listen closely, you can hear the true emotion behind the contempt rush shows to free women...
Envy is behind his words... It is not concern for the fact that she may be wasting her love on strangers, or risking some deadly disease...He dwells on the act itself, as sluttyness, or prostitution, and talks of its visualization... These republicans who all identify with morality and religion say they hate the sin and love the sinner... They hate everyone, and love sin... They admire the sinners who defy God, and dare to take pleasure out of life... The best argument against the privilages of religious denominations is that they are all nests of hatred... The fear and envy that would normally be turned toward those who gobble up our country, our hope, our freedoms, and our future are turned against the poor who have no other hope than the gratification of momentary desires...