The Rockefeller Republican contempt for man is, other than abortion, most clearly shown in the quest for, and name of, immunocontraceptives. Immunized against offspring. Immunized.
Until they find their Holy Grail of Population Control, a mass sterilization agent that can be put in the water supply, a la Ehrlich, quick "immunization" shots are the easiest and cheapest alternative to surgical or chemical sterilization. Round up the useless breeders, and inject 'em (foreign roundups [see "India"], and domestic propaganda). I think that one useful role that the NRLC plays for the population controllers is to maintain, as was done thirty years ago, the abhorrence of abortion as a catalyst for expanding contraceptive use. There are no doubt many good people in the NRLC, but I've completely abandoned the parallel GOP defense of "we're just incompetent."
OH THANK YOU for mentioning that. That angle doesn't get enough play.
It's precisely my thought ... particularly where RU-486 or morning after pills are concerned.
It's in this respect I agree absolutely with Independentmind that a concentration on abortion (without a comprehensive recognition of the divorcing of sex from procreation and the right to life from Conception to natural death) ultimately hamstrings us.
Particularly where the GOP wedges their foot in the door with a compassionate exception for offing the innocent in the cases of Rape or Incest. Simply brilliant.
And yet we have the gall to be outraged when the CDC muckety-mucks refer to pregnancy as a disease.
Gee, where in the world would they have gotten that idea? Was it perhaps instilled THIRTY YEARS AGO by the likes of the Dynamic New Leadership the likes of George H. Bush hailed?
I can't believe the primary complaint from all comers is that this is so dated.
God help us ...