They Do It With Fudge
Digby, on how the Right cleverly frames the contraception debate (AKA The War On Women) to incrementally carve away womens’ hard-won gains of the last 50 years and turn them back into baby-making machines :
Anti-choicers: “Birth control is just like baby killing”
Reasonable Dupes: “Not true! It’s nothing like baby killing. We are against baby killing!”
Anti-choicers: “We don’t believe you. You just want the freedom to put little girls on the pill and when that doesn’t work, you want to yank unborn babies from their wombs against God’s will!”
Dupes: (rolling eyes) “Ok, ok. We’ll prove it. We are willing to outlaw abortion, but you will pry our birth control from our cold dead fingers.
Anti-choicers: “heh”
Why am I a hard-line socialist? One of the reasons is because the above exchange is typical of the kind of thing that happens when social democrats act all reasonable and go for the fudgey middle – woolly compromise by woolly compromise, the far Right get their way.
The right of women and girls not to be forced to bear unwanted children is too important for that.
Read more: Abortion, War on women, Anti-choice Contraception
