There's a comment thread over on Change.gov pertaining to Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration:
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Which, not surprisingly, has been freeped: invaded, infected by the virulent forced-birth wingnuttery. They come armed with all the lies and smears of reproductive freedom you could imagine, flung like feces (and some you couldn't imagine in a million years.) All decked out in the traditional reich-wing forced-birth format: fact-free, misspelled, illogical, illiterate.
Every once in a while a voice of reason weighs in on a thread, only to be buried in an avalanche of smear and bleatings by the panty-sniffing busybodies with waaaaay too much time on their hands.
None of this matters, of course. As evidenced by the attached PDF http://otrans.3cdn.net/... Obama and Biden are set on the opposite course and unlikely to be swayed by the cackling witches of Endor stirring the same-old, same-old pot of repression and restriction on reproductive rights.
For both of those reasons, it's probably a waste of your time to respond to the Forced Birth Brigade, but I need a hobby.
Every once in a while, I dip in with facts, figures, surveys, studies, polls -- which are promptly refuted as being "liberal" (reality has a well-known liberal bias.)
Or occasionally, I amuse myself with a reality based-taunt. Like the below, which I wrote after watching the Inauguration today:
Dear Forced Birth Fanatics:
It's over -- your reign of ignorance, sticking your nose in other people's reproductivity, your lies, your fabrications, your murder of doctors and nurses, your hope to murder thousands of women through illegal abortion.
Thank God, it's over. No matter how you plead with the new administration to allow you to control other Americans' lives, no matter how many fact-free lies you push, no matter.
It's over. You had six years of a Republican President and Congress -- and you couldn't even get them to give you your dream of Forced Birth in America.
That's your hint, that's your clue. The grownups are back in charge, and they will roll back the needless restrictions on women's lives and freedom.
Get a life -- your own. You can bow out of our lives now. Or natter on endlessly amongst yourselves, it doesn't matter. It's over.
It may be a waste of your time to argue with the forced birth crowd, but perhaps you need a hobby, too.
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