Senatorial candidate, Representative Todd Akin of Missouri has committed political
suicide by making a very poor choice of words about “forcible rape”. However, the uproar against it reeks of
political opportunism for both Democrats and Republicans. I think it is very nasty of politicos to raise the “war against women” mantra again. For Republicans, it has given
them an opportunity to throw another Republican under the bus, albeit one who
probably deserves it (and who may actually be a Trojan horse, bought, paid for
and delivered by the Democrats).
I think it is reprehensible to attempt to make political hay
out of an issue that is very important and needs to be debated by reasonable
people seeking reasonable solutions. Certainly,
there is no such thing as “forcible rape”.
All rape is forcible. That is a
fact. But to use this statement to tar
and feather all Republicans is unscrupulous and unfair.
Keep in mind, I’m not a big defender of Republicans and have
done my share of ridiculing them. But
the idea that there is a war on women does a disservice to the women who have
been raped and it unfairly tarnishes the reputations of the many Republicans
who also care about women who have been raped. Democrats are no more for women or against
them than are Republicans. If you want
to have a reasonable debate, let’s stop calling people names and tarnishing
them with having a war on anything. According
to this faulty logic, you could equally say that Democrats have a war on women
because so many women have lost their jobs since Obama has been President.
The mistake here is in the practice of invoking collectivism; the grouping of people,
in this case, according to ideas that many of them do not hold. There are many women Republicans who don’t
feel they are at war with women. Some Republican women, a few, even favor
a woman’s right to abortion. In fact,
they think that free market principles and policies are the best way to help
women as well as men (and blacks and gays). Many Republicans believe that you don’t help
people by expropriating money from one group, and then using that money in
wasteful and even harmful ways presumably to help another group…such as paying
approximately $1,000,000 per job created – most of which jobs do not return the
“investment” (like jobs are supposed to do).
It doesn’t take a Republican to adhere to sound economic principles - it takes a sound thinker adhering to individual rights. In
fact, this wasteful spending could be said to represent a war by the Democrats
on the entire country.
Regarding tax payers paying for abortions or the
consequences of rape, I first would like to state that I am in favor of a woman’s
right to do whatever she and her doctor decide is in her best interests. I fully support a woman’s right to control
her body and to make all decisions without the interference of government (or men). I
consider the idea of outlawing abortions to be a violation of the woman’s
individual rights. On this point, I
disagree with many of my Republican friends who have a different view of the
good and how it is derived.
However, I do not support the idea that government should
use tax payer dollars to fund abortions.
I consider it immoral to force one individual to pay for the needs of
any other individual. If I want to help
women get abortions, I should support that privately with private donations and
not ask the government to do it. Using
tax payer dollars to pay for abortions, houses, solar panels, cars, factories
and windmills, etc. is wrong.
The key question is what is the proper role of government? I hold that each individual is properly
responsible for him or herself and I consider it evil to demand that other
people pay for anyone else’s stuff.
The fact that I don’t support the right of a person to take
my money and give it to someone else does not mean I am at war against
women. Welfare and welfare services, or
any government services (even those that support big corporations and thieving
CEOs), are not a right. No person has a
right to demand that other people lose their rights in order to pay for someone elses "rights".
To insist that it is proper to take other peoples’ money by force is
wrong – yet that is what the leftists (and some on the right) do. This violation of individual rights is what
the advocates of abortion are demanding.
They are demanding that government, meaning the tax payer, pay for
abortions and contraception. They have a
right to abortions and contraception if they want to purchase them…but they don’t
have a right to force other people to pay for them.
But I consider the issue of funding abortions to be part of
a larger struggle for freedom. People
should be free to use their hard earned money as they see fit - and that right is more important than someone else's need.
The real issue in this election is about fiscal solvency. The issue of funding abortions is an important part of that debate but it is only part of the wider debate. Most of us are aware that once the present crop of Democrats is done implementing their re-distribution policies, if we elect them again, there won’t be any money for anything…and that includes money for abortions and rape victims. If we become insolvent as a country, there won’t be any benefits for anyone, seniors, women or government cronies. There won’t be any money to scream about and demand (as a right) because the Democrats will have forced us into bankruptcy…and bankruptcy means there is no more money.
Supporting the Democrats and their spending, even their
spending on abortion, will not make things better…it will eventually cause the
financial and economic collapse of our country.
That would cause a real war on women…and men…and children…and Blacks…and
Hispanics…and…and…and. IThe real issue in this election is about fiscal solvency. The issue of funding abortions is an important part of that debate but it is only part of the wider debate. Most of us are aware that once the present crop of Democrats is done implementing their re-distribution policies, if we elect them again, there won’t be any money for anything…and that includes money for abortions and rape victims. If we become insolvent as a country, there won’t be any benefits for anyone, seniors, women or government cronies. There won’t be any money to scream about and demand (as a right) because the Democrats will have forced us into bankruptcy…and bankruptcy means there is no more money.
f you want our country to collapse, vote for the Democrats.
