You Choose or The Government Chooses. You Decide.

Women from my generation remember clearly the forces that were Anita Bryant and Phyllis Schafly.* It seems that every time the GOP get in political trouble for their failed economic policies they reach in their bag of hate, hiding behind the Bible, and go after women and homosexuals. Even GOP women go after the women.

I am happy there are women candidates in the GOP, if indeed the Tea Party is in the GOP, but I don't believe that their platforms are good for women. However, it is my sincere belief and hope that women will vote for policies that are in their best interest, not for a set of chromosomes.

Five current candidates are now on record opposing abortion for women even in the case of rape or incest. This used to be only supported by the fringe of the movement. These candidates, all running on the desire for smaller government, want that same government to force women to carry a child to term in the case of rape or incest under the threat of prosecution.

These five current candidates support no abortion, no exceptions:
Sharon Angle (Nevada)
Christine O'Donnell (Delaware)
Ken Buck (Colorado)
Rand Paul (Kentucky)
Joe Miller (Alaska)

Speaking to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Princeton Professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell said:

[O]n the one hand, there's this little tiny bit of me that wants to cheer for the fact that you have women candidates willing to be sort of courageous enough to put themselves forward in this very tough political situation.


On the other hand, let`s be completely clear about the facts here. There is no place in the world and no time in history where restricting women's reproductive rights makes a people or a nation more free or more equal. These extreme positions on abortion are without any question a war on American girls and women. And the fact that there are women who are both complicit and participatory in it is really neither surprising nor unprecedented.

Watch full segment and interview here:

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A Colorado Fetal Personhood, Amendment 62 will appear on the 2010 state ballot in Colorado as an initiated constitutional amendment. The measure marks the second time Colorado voters have seen an abortion-related measure on the statewide ballot. Amendment 48 appeared on the November 2008 statewide ballot in Colorado, where it was decisively defeated.

Similar amendments have been proposed in Mississippi, Montana, and Georgia but, to my knowledge, only Colorado has collected enough signatures to get it on the 2010 ballot. It was defeated in 2008.

One last example, as posted in Huffington Post:
What is my point? My point is that the GOP is losing their soul to the fringe groups of America. I am a Democrat, but I will lose if the current candidates of the GOP win.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) attempted to convince pastors that economic issues are moral issues at the Greater Freedom Rally at a church in Spartanburg, South Carolina yesterday, imploring them to help conservatives retake Congress in November.


In addition to reiterating anti-choice talking points on abortion and backing "traditional marriage," according to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, the senator went further and "said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn't be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who's sleeping with her boyfriend -- she shouldn't be in the classroom."

*Both Anita Bryant Ministries International and Eagle Forum are listed as tax-exempt organizations by watchdog.net.