Cray Cray: Why Are Some Republicans Going on Abortion Witch Hunts?

Enjoying my "Berry Munch" Girl Guides cookies as I write this.

Some people have very active imaginations and too much time on their hands. To be fair, his own party members are ridiculing him.

ohh the white men of America.. freaking out because their women are being reproduced under the table by brown people. that's what it boils down to, controlling the white woman's womb because they could care less about our reproductive organs we are just caught in the middle.

this tactic is also used to segregate people and cause enough confusion that people can't focus on the real issues. its a smokescreen plain simple... don't be blinded by the shiny thing in the sunlight step around it and focus on the real issues.

**exits stage left**

Speaking as a former Brownie and Junior Girl Scout, all I can do is shake my head. There is much going on in the world and they want to focus on that ? Wake me up when the election is almost over.

=/ I disagree with a lot of these comments. But I do agree that the GOP needs to find different issues to cover because it is getting redundant. However, they are the only ones bold enough to expose organization's who have other "agendas". Someone has to do it, and I appreciate that they are the only ones willing to take on the unwanted title.

Secondly, this isn't really an issue about the GOP being obsessed with women's issues or enforcing "Christian" values. Many conservatives actually are not Christians but get grouped into this because their personal beliefs and morals may be similar. My own boyfriend (who is white) is greatly against a lot of the things the Democrat party supports, which gives him not much of a choice but to side with the Republicans even though he does not agree with many things they support. However, he is not a Christian, and not religious. This is actually very common.

I would not support Planned Parenthood because I do believe it is not the wisest of organizations for the government to put funding into. It's roots were not honorable and something that was not founded on good intentions must really be looked carefully at. Instead, the government should focus on making basic medical more affordable as well as birth control. I am not against many forms of birth control but I am specifically against Planned Parenthood.

If the Republicans would instead, push the government to improve health care, and better the quality of birth control, and better access for all women this would actually better their image and at the same time, they can support what they generally support without so much heat...the same way Democrats do. They're just not going about it the right way.

Now they're going after a little girl's club! The GOP hates women. Sorry, there's too much evidence to refute this fact. The discussion about Catholic institutions with secular employees refusing to pay for birth control (but they pay for Viagra all day long...and sorry those paychecks are going toward some nasty, non-religious stuff, too!) has veered into a discussion about why women even want or need The Pill (Santorum says it's a license to do things in the 'sexual realm' that shouldn't be done. This guy's the frontrunner!!!) GOP, stay the frak out of my sexual realm!

This is part of the increasingly overt measures to overturn Roe v Wade and in extension women's liberation. People are proudly wearing their rose tinted glasses that somehow the past was all sunshine and roses. It seems like they want to return to the good bad old days where women were dropping like flies after botched back street abortions. I cannot support people that want to completely ban the morning after pill and guilt trip extremely emotionally fragile women in their hour of need.

I feel like I've been b*#ch slapped by a time machine these last few months.....it's 1952 and people are pissed women can vote let alone control their bodies...but anyways.

I was reading all about this at the Huffington Post. He alleges that the GS are the tactical/radical arm of planned parenthood and Micehlle Obama (that's right!) because a troop in Colorado let a MTF transgender child on their troop at FLOTUS is the president of the GS.

Im a former GS, won't let my daughter be one, but I still like the cookies. The GS aren't radical anything and they don't discuss reproduction or have political agenda. From what I gather FLOTUS is the "president" only symbolically; it's traditional to name the first lady as head of the girl scouts but first ladies aren't actually expected to do anything with them.

There are some things that should be left alone and subject to political stunts. Girl Scouts, animal shelters, food banks etc. Only a fool could find a problem with the girl scouts. This guy can take his daughter out the organization, but there is no need to rally government resources to "take town" a non-profit club for girls.

well..just like a insecure boyfriend that accuses you of cheating when they are doing it...NEXT....

I wasn't even going to buy any cookies this year but now I am thinking about getting some boxes as a way of support to these young women who need to know who their enemies are at an early age.

They betta LEAVE my Girl Scouts alone! I need my Thin Mint cookies goshdarnnit! I gotta stock my freezer for the year!

Gives me another reason to continue my visceral hatred for the GOP.....

I don't understand Conservatives. On one hand, most are for smaller government and not being involved in the lives of private citizens; yet, when it comes to social issues like abortion, they want to be all up in the kool aid. I don't get it. These same people who are against choice are also for cutting social programs like welfare. For the love, let's not cherry pick.

And birth control...really?? How can one be against birth control for everyone?? If a woman doesn't want it, she doesn't have to take it. If seems to me that they have this idea that it's a bunch of single women whoring around and they should be punished. Birth control is also used by couples for family planning. As an individual, I have the right to determine those issues for myself and when I get married, it will be a decision for me and my husband. I only belong to God, not to some dude who does not care about me until election time.

I agree with you Chris, it's a matter of choice by the woman whose body and mental state are involved. The repukelicans know no boundaries when it comes to subversive tactics. I just saw an article yesterday that Santorum and Paul is buddy, buddy. Why, you ask? Because as much as they put each other down way deep inside they have the same ideas only a different way of promoting them. This is just another slimy, underhanded, nasty, foul way to "let everyone know" they agree on the same things. Girl Scouts are learning experience for all who what to join, helping to develop skills needed to survive in tomorrows (and todays) world. It creates friendships, teaches them how to work with one another, and to work in groups deciding the best ways to do projects. They need to leave kids OUT OF POLITICS. However, they are afraid or don't know how to go after the adults and sit down and discuss their decisions. If any GS leaders have these political views, they should refrain from trying to bend the girls to their thinking. Politics has become a dirty business, name calling, mudslinging, and saying "if it’s not our way, it’s the hi-way for you!" We need to start a new party of people who still believe in the constitution and the fact that is for the people, not the politicians.

A friend of mine said it best. "A womans womb is the only thing these CONservatives cannot control and they cannot deal with it. They can control almost every other area of our lives except the decision of whether or not we have children. They hate this."

It's a nice little [psychotic] break from reality, provided by Our Cultural Masters, to draw attention away from Iran and it's hundreds of North Korean nuclear scientists and the fact that the USA is considering a request from the South Korean government to bring back tactical nuclear weapons to US facilities in South Korea.

Great article. Its sad to see what the Republicans will stoop to to gain "votes". They believe using religious rhetoric that dictates the whole of America will win the presidential seat and set this country "right" again. History tells us that when a country does that, war ensues. F*cking sad.