Is the Birth Control Issue hurting the GOP with Women Voters?

OMG!! NOTHING is being done to prevent women ACCESS to birth control!!! This is a religious freedom (1st Amendment) issue, NOT an access one. Sheesh! Most women have just got to be the most daft group of people!! When I was younger, I paid for my own birth control, because insurance wasn't covering it. That was fine by me, because it really wasn't that expensive.

Women today can get free, or low cost, birth control through Medicaid & Planned Parenthood. They can also close their legs (& yes, the guys can keep it in their pants). And puhlease, no nasty comment about "how dare you"! I'm so very tired of self-righteous liberal women's libbers (men, particularly "white" men-haters, & conservative women haters) giving us their nasty-a*s opinion about the virtues of single-motherhood, working outside the home w/ neglect of our kids, their irritation of actually being happily married w/ long-term faithfulness to a man, sex outside of marriage w/ anything that moves, & gay marriage.

There are a HUGE number of women who think stupid women (& men) like yourself are MANDATING others pay for your personal choice issues of birth control when their religion is CLEARLY against it, particularly indiscriminate use of abortion, is TOTALLY against the 1st Amendment. If a woman (or man) does not like the health care benefits that the Catholic organization (emphasis on Catholic), then they should go work somewhere else. There are very few people in this country who are unaware of the Catholic Church's position on this subject!!!

And before you begin name-calling, feeling "offended" at my comments, or giving me the "how dare you" & "you're putting women back 100 years, let it be known that I am NOT Catholic. I am, however, concerned that if the government gets away w/ removing the 1st Amendment for Catholics, & for Fox News (which they are attempting to do), then whose freedom do they go after next? What pet "right" are YOU willing to give up, or are you looking forward to a totalitarian government?

Ok, it's gonna get a tad strange and simplistic here but I would like to present a scenario involving the same basic concepts that JAA and I are trying to explain to you, except without all the rhetoric and emotionality of a hot bed issue such as the one this discussion is actually about. It's going to be tough to do without seeming to talk down to you, and if it does, please know that is NOT my intention. I only ask that you keep an open mind and put yourself into the scenario I present, and then think and reply honestly from that perspective.

Obviously you agree that brusselds sprouts are considered good for us. So do I. Except I actually enjoy having maybe three or four every six months or so. Definitely no more than that though :)

For this you will have to accept that your religion (it's just a religion that you live your life around, doesn't have to have anything to do with a god persay. Only that you and those who think as you do believe it and live by it) believes that the consumption of brussels sprouts will lead you into eternal damnnation, regardless of whether eating them can prolong your life and enhance the quality of it. There is also a severe deficiency of vitamin D in the diets of your fellow countrymen ( regardless of if they believe in any sort of religion or not) causing all sorts of health issues. Painfully distended bellies, hormones all screwed up, irregularity, can't hold food down, etc. and the best solution for this is to consume one brussels sprout a day. While this is a problem for society as a whole, it is only your religion that refuses to consume brussels sprouts, due to your religious beliefs. Your numbers are by no means small, but you are definitlely a minority. We'll call you all the NBS's ( No Brussels Sprouts). You guys know they are good for you physically, but feel they will destroy you spiritually. The sprouts have become expensive as hell, and a lot of folks who don't do or produce anything want to eat these brussels sprouts to alleviate their symptoms. Many of them are even in this country illegally. So along comes the FBSers. (Force Brusslels Sprouts). You NBS's are generally a hard working bunch that try and take care of you and your's with as little interference from the government as possible. ( Here's where we insert the US Constitution as it is, the only real part of this scenario, and all laws must be bound by it) Well the FBSers first pass legislation requiring that all citizens consume brusslels sprouts because they are good for you and will reduce health care costs across the board. If you don't consume them, you are subject to stiff fines. We then decide that since you NBS's, through your own hard work are pretty well off and have a lot more than most folks, you should bear the majority of the burden of providing those brussels sprouts to the masses. So the FBSers decide you need to pay higher taxes to provide the nation with the mandated sprouts. As the mandated consumption of these sprouts increases, they grow more expensive, and out of reach for even more of society. To the FBSers, that's fine, because we're just going to go ahead and raise you taxes some more to help pay for it. Keep in mind here that as it is only fity percent of Americans pay any taxes at all. Since supply and demand have driven the cost of the sprouts out of most folks reach, the FBSers now enact legislation that government will provide these sprouts to the people. It doesn't matter that they won't die from not having them. Theyll be uncomfortable sure, but not in any real danger. And it doesn't matter that the government is functionally bankrupt, because the FBSers are simply going to raise your taxes again. After all, you have it to spare. Why shouldn't you be forced to pay for brussels sprouts, that if you yourself consume will send you to hell, for those who have no desire to try and better themselves, or have no business being in this country in the first place.

It would take 20 more pages to finish this and exclude all the acillary issues that come up, but from you remarks, while I may not agree with them, I know you can see where I'm going with this.

Basically, I want my sprouts, and I want you to pay for them. I don't care if you've found ways other than sprouts to provide you with your vitamin D. I don't care if I've never paid a cent in taxes. I don't care what you feel the consumption of sprouts will do to the morals of the country, or that you think even providing them to others will make you burn in hell. You have more than me, so you should buy me my sprouts. I don't even have to consider the sprout alternatives that you and yours have discovered, because sprouts are effective 95% of the time. because you have so much, you OWE me my sprouts, and I am going to use the jack boots of government to get my sprouts from you. If your not careful,and put up too much of a stink, I'm going to make you go out in the fields and grow my sprouts. I'm in the majority after all. It doesn't matter to me that the constitution expressly forbids me from requiring you to provide me with my sprouts. That's just a stupid piece of paper and I don't have to pay any attention to it at all. I want my sprouts and by golly you're gonna give them to me. Oh, and by the way, I also think eating meat is bad for you, so you can't do that either. And if you try and oppose any of my legislation, I'm going to expose you for the religious zealot that you really are.

Can you put yourself in that position, and then tell me how it would feel to be there, for you? I know it's flawed in the presentation, but the underlying issue is clear. Keep the constitution in mind as well please.