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With so much talk about contraception, abortion and women’s reproductivity issues I’m struck by how many kids some of the Republican presidential candidates past and present have. Let’s count them shall we, Rick “teens are over sexed” Santorum has seven kids…
S E V E N, actually it was eight but one died hours after being born. Mitt “I’ll answer the questions I want to” Romney has five children(all boys). Jon Huntsman has seven like Santorum and Ron Paul has five like Romney. That’s A LOT of kids.  The other candidates clock in around two or three and you know three really is enough in my opinion.

Of course it’s your right to have 20 kids as long as you can provide for them and more importantly love them but should you really have that many just because you can? Rick is really the one I want to focus on since he’s running off at the mouth about women.

He’s been saying a lot about us lately:

  • He says the rise of women’s rights have undermined the traditional family. He calls them radical feminists for advocating that women get an education and blaming them for mothers going out there and working to support their families and at times having to leave their children in the care of someone else. He fails to mention that the stagnant wages over the past 20 years has pushed many moms out the door to work.
  • He’s opposed to contraception based on his religious beliefs(which is his right)but also he thinks it’s dangerous and a license to do things in the sexual realm. Why do all conservatives think that birth control = promiscuity. I’m not advocating sex outside of marriage but we all know that sex outside of marriage happens all the time. I’d rather have my kid be prepared and protected from an unwanted pregnancy then live in a dream world. But the contraception thing with Rick seems to be also about controlling a woman’s choice to have a certain amount of kids and then stop. I wonder if his wife(who is a nurse and a lawyer) really felt like birthing all those children and giving up her career to raise them while Rick did all the things he wanted to do.
  • It’s no surprise he’s against abortion under any circumstances even if his daughter were raped and begged for an abortion, he’d say hell no(my words). He had this to say about it to CNN’s Piers Morgan,

“As horrible as the way that that son or daughter and son was created, it still is her child….I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created — in the sense of rape — but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you….we have to make the best out of a bad situation.

He may as well have said, dear victims of rape or incest…SUCK IT UP!

He’s a religious whack job and folks were worried about Rev. Wright preaching in his pulpit on Sundays. Santorum’s out there saying this stuff in the public square and wanting to impose it on women. His goal from his first day in office would be to take away a woman’s right to choose based on his extreme conservatism. I find it hard to believe that any woman could support Rick’s extreme views even if she’s a stay-at-home mom who is a devout Catholic. She should be concerned about his antiquated and disrespectful views about women. Voters, especially women, better realize that he’s just too conservative for these modern times. This is 2012 not 1955 and women have a right to have goals and that include both kids and a career.
Posted by Libergirl