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Your Daily Outrage: War on Women Edition (Plus Yet Another Reason to Avoid France)

Ladies. All the ladies:

I want you to sit down. Make sure you have plenty of water and maybe a medical professional nearby. Take deep breaths and try to remain very calm while I tell you this:

Mitt Romney, if elected, will immediately send troops into your home to aim giant guns at your uterus. Your reproductive organs will no longer be under your control, but will belong to the United States and the Republican Party, to be done with as they please. (This will probably involve forcing you to give birth to Evangelical babies who love guns and country music.) While your uterus is placed under armed guard, your birth control pills, IUDs, condoms, and all other lady-plumbing related accessories will be confiscated by bureaucrats (white Christian male bureaucrats) and replaced with Bibles and Kirk Cameron DVDs.

Because of this, you, as a woman, need to vote for Barack Obama. Only Barack Obama can protect your uterus.

The above photo was posted on the Obama campaign’s official Tumblr, then later removed. “Vote like your lady parts depend on it,” reads the someecards.com-inspired pro-Obama meme. Underneath it, the campaign added, “Because they kinda do.”

Hear that, ladies? This is what we’re calling feminism nowadays. Only Big Daddy Gub’mint, in the dreamy personage of Barack Obama, can protect your lady-plumbing.

How many women, besides bloggers for RH Reality Check and Jezebel, actually think there are major party candidates interested in taking away your birth control pills exerting total control over all your reproductive organs?

The answer is: probably too many.

I wish I could believe that most women are smart enough to realize this. I want to believe that the majority of women are actually thinking about the future of the country, the economy, the collapsing Middle East, maybe even the human rights of the unborn. I really, really hope there are no more than a few women who have their vote influenced by Eva Longoria’s shiny hair.

I want to believe women realize that this idea – “Vote like your lady parts depend on it.” – is utterly degrading.

The War on Women rhetoric is a way of using identity politics to win votes, just like screaming that a certain party is racist or hates illegal immigrants.

I call women who fall for radical feminism “fauxminists.” I – a pro-life woman – am a real feminist – because I, unlike those who put their health and fertility in the hands of abortionists and birth control peddlers and the whole so-called “women’s health” industry, actually have total control over my lady parts. Me. I don’t need the government or an abortionist or a gynecologist getting kickbacks from Mirena to contribute to the care of my girlie business. I make my own decisions, and if I decided to take hormonal birth control, I would pay for it myself, because I am a capable woman, and this is America, not Afghanistan. I don’t need protection from any politicians or elected officials, and I don’t need anyone - male or otherwise - to buy me dangerous pills or kill my unborn child for me.

Unfortunately, too many single women decry the whole idea of “needing” a husband, then treat government like their husband. “Can I have a few bucks, honey? I need some pills and abortions.”

Meanwhile, in enlightened, socialist France, which, like most of enlightened, socialist Europe, is drowning in debt, a new budget has been proposed. You see, right now, there is a co-payment for abortion in the land of croissants et baguettes, so that only about 70 to 80 percent of the cost is covered. Quel dommage!

Via LifeNews.com, the AFP says:

France on Monday unveiled a package of reforms designed to increase access to abortion, including 100 percent reimbursement of medical costs by the state social security system.

Oh, but that’s not enough! President Hollande wants to make sure that any woman, anywhere in France, who suddenly thinks, “Sacré bleu! I would like my bébé aborted!” will have an abortionist waiting nearby:

As well as promising to ensure the costs of abortion are fully covered, Hollande’s election manifesto included a pledge to ensure terminations were available at every major hospital across the country.

There is a reason why socialist manifestos make red-blooded Americans nervous: they usually include pure craziness like this.

This is what we’re headed toward, America, if the women who claim to speak for all of us (Eva Longoria, Sandra Fluke, Scarlett Johansson, et al.) have their way: free abortion on demand anywhere you want it, no matter the cost in dollars, lives, or the soul of the country. And if you disagree with this, you’re waging war on women.

I disagree with this, and I am a woman. What does that make me? According to cute actress turned angry fauxminist Janeane Garofalalflalalo, speaking to Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, women and “people of color” who identify as conservative have a form of Stockholm syndrome and are subconsciously seeking to “curry favor with the oppressors.”

You got me, Janeane: I am not really pro-life, pro-morality, and pro-education. I just want my mean white oppressors to like me.

I’m glad we were able to get to the bottom of my psyche today here on the Live Action blog. It’s too late for me, obviously, but I would encourage other women to do what early feminists fought for your right to do: make up your own mind, and vote your own conscience.

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  • Mwhahaha

    But…. but… Obama can save my lady parts AND Sesame Street!!

  • Fauxminist

    Oh, and don’t ever question your need for that abortion women. You need it. Do you really think you can make it out there in this competitive modern environment with a baby shackled to you for 9 months? How are you going to keep your job when men are competing for it, and they don’t get pregnant?

    Face it ladies, this society doesn’t have room for both your career and your babies; if you want to make it out there in this world you’ll have to conform to its demands, kill it before it’s not too late!

    • Old RN

      Or hey, maybe we can band together and have our kids while helping each other?! You know, really show the world how steong women really are?! Show how our fortitude and ability to work as a team are assets in the working world?!

      Nah…you’re right. Doing all that would be far too tough! So much easier to just exchange my femininity via aborting and letting the government fix my fertility problem…that way, I can be just like the boys.

      • Old RN

        Sorry, “…how strong women…”.

        • Mwhahaha

          Puh, strong women, what are these strong women you speak of! We can’t teach women to be strong and work together, no no, we must have the government expel the vermin from our tainted wombs!

    • http://twitter.com/SaraHeer Sara H

      I perceive that you are being sarcastic and do not, in truth, believe the argument you are putting forth since it’s entirely illogical in today’s society.

      • Timmehh

        One should not comment on sarcasm, as it ruins the point of it.

        • http://twitter.com/SaraHeer Sara H

          True, but as the others seemed to think it was a serious opinion I hoped I might assist future readers so they themselves would not pop a vein and lose sleep. ;)

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=775980045 Alicia Moore Robinson

      We are in charge of our own bodies…this campaign is laughable. You can walk into any WALMART and buy a condom. Republicans said they are pro life….if it is life threatening or a rape then exceptions are made……they want to stop all these WELFARE people from having babies that we have to support……stop making this into something it isn’t just to throw up a smoke screen towards what Obama has done…NOTHING….he can’t defend what he has done so now this…..LMAO

  • http://www.facebook.com/destinydelaro Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa

    This is amazeballs. That is all.

    • http://www.facebook.com/destinydelaro Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa

      Oh crud, I should have said “This is amazeballs. Period.” Dang it. Feminist opportunity missed.

  • md

    I wish you would have suggested I bring my smelling salts. For such information was too much to bare.

  • JennJ

    He has no respect for women or life whatsoever! Lucky for America not all women are as stupid as Obama thinks we are. Keep up the good work Kristen! http://voiceforhope.blogspot.com/

  • Anna

    This is such bull sh-t! ..and nothing surprises me with this administration! Right up to the $49.99 campaign contributions from foreign countries, not using the 3 #’s on the back of the card!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=775980045 Alicia Moore Robinson

    This campaign is Laughable and coming from the movie stars who Obama plays with…Yes, Obama just wants to campaign in California all the time because that is where he feels comfortable among all those who give him money….he could care less about anything else. He was on a plane to Las Vegas when our Ambassador in Libya was killed and he could care less. His administration lied and came up with an excuse that it was about a youtube video. It took 10 days to admit it was a terrorist attack that just so happend to be on 911….Rumor even has it that he had it planned to kidnap the Ambassador so he could look like a hero and have him rescued…..all this from a liar….and you want us women to believe this laughable ad….US Women are in charge of our own bodies…..Anyone can walk into Walmart and buy a condom. The Republican party is PRO LIFE….if you are raped or your life is in danger due to a pregnancy then they said there would be exceptions….the Republicans want to STOP all the Welfare babies that we are all supporting….enough of the smoke screens Obama…….this ad is a joke and so are the ladies doing it.