bayprairie writes, "These politicians are your Health Care Providers":

Most of the men listed below are proud members of the Democrats for Life.

A few of them, Lousiana, Texas and Colorado are fellow travellers.

Take a good look at them. They're all men. And their power trumps that of your Doctor.

These men ARE the enemy.

I'm updating the list with photos.

And photos she has. Look at the list. These are "respected" men. Some Democratic pundits, consultants and so-called liberal bloggers will try to assert that the anti-reproductive rights attitudes of these men shouldn't really count, that their positions in favor of state authority over breeding laws aren't part of the important shit.

Is this "just a woman's issue"? Hardly. Every person is affected, whether he or she can get pregnant or not. State control of the bodies of its citizens is what these people are advocating.

• If the state can prevent you from having an abortion, by the same authority it can force you to have an abortion. (Maybe you have the "wrong" genes. Maybe you don't have the right look. Maybe you'd be too expensive to welfare programs.)
• If the state can control a woman's reproductive organs, then it can control a man's reproductive organs. (Castrate criminals so they don't reproduce?)
• If the state can control reproductive organs, it can control the whole body. (You are too obese, so the state will staple your stomach. You are too aggressive, so the state will perform some neurosurgery. Your child is too unruly in class, so the state will implant psychotropic drugs to control his behavior. Oh, and your hair is too short, and your hair is too long. That tattoo is inappropriate. We will make corrections.)

Or....maybe there won't be all these additional implications. Maybe equality will never exist, and state control of individual bodies will be limited to women of childbearing years. That wouldn't be so bad, now, would it? Heck, most of them probably don't vote, anyway! Yes. No need to get hysterical now, is there?

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