What part of the word “choice” do these morons not understand?
I don’t know if it’s just that I got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning or what, but it seems to me that misogyny levels in this country are getting perilously high lately. What the fuck is up with that? It isn’t just this stupid cartoonist and all his anti-choice ilk who literally do not understand that women have wills and that we make choices. This meme is spreading to ostensibly “pro-choice” sexist asswipes, too, like Chris Matthews, who seems to have bought into the idea that there’s no difference between voluntary and mandatory contraception. Because, once again, to accept that there’s a difference is to accept that women have minds of our own, and we can’t have that.
I definitely think that a lot of right wing men are just throwing a giant temper tantrum because, despite the Medicaid birth control debacle, Obama and congressional Democrats are gutting an anti-feminist project that they’ve been working for years on. Jill has it right to compare the picture of the signing of the Partial Birth Abortion Act with the picture of the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Act.