Bush Thinks Birth Control = Abortion

After reading this article (and thanks to my librarian friend for sending this along),

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121745387879898315.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

I felt angry - why is this happening so close to an election? And if you read McCain's response (which was, no comment) you can infer that he supports this measure.

If McKinney can't get president, I hope to god that Obama does. He will rule us with a gentler iron hand.

So what did I do to speak out? I went to the "Family Research Council" and submitted this email:

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I just want to express my outrage at Tom McClusky's quote in the Wall Street Journal regarding Bush's mission to classify the pill as an abortion method, to wit: "If the draft regulation were to prompt some insurance companies to drop coverage for prescription birth control, 'that would be fantastic,' said Tom McClusky, a strategist with the conservative Family Research Council." (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121745387879898315.html?mod=googlenews_wsj)

How can you say you promote family values when you are actively working to take away a family's choice whether or not to have a child? Have you ever seen an unwanted child? You probably see them every day without recognizing them - you don't have to look hard where I live to see families with five children, both parents working full time (at least one job a piece), the oldest has to stay home from school to take care of two babies, and there's still not enough resources between the parents to keep their own children fed! This happens every day! All it takes is for a parent to be an ex-con, or neither of them having college degrees and so they have to settle for minimum wage. And all the while our society lifts up the idea of parenthood and having as many kids as you can bear, sometimes more.

Do you think that both parents working full time on minimum wage and being forced to spend that much time away from their kids demonstrates good family values? I certainly do not, and you are definitely not doing God's work. And if at this point, you are judging them, saying, well, they should be able to abstain, and it's our job to make the laws - do you really think that's any of your business? What if I pried into your personal matters, and said there was something wrong and subversive about the way you wipe your ass?

The only way to ensure a properly functioning system with no access to birth control is to make sure there will be loving homes for the children - which means fighting to raise minimum wage, fighting hunger in our country, and totally restructuring the foster care and adoption system. I see nothing on your web site addressing poverty, which I believe is the thing that Jesus talked most often about.

EVERY CHILD A WANTED CHILD!

"For I come not to bring peace, but a sword."

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Quoting scripture may or may not get their attention - they may not even recognize it as scripture, but one can dream.