Is Tom Corbett out of his mind? Does he think women are incapable of tending to their own body business? Does the “moderate” governor of Pennsylvania actually think women should be forced to undergo an ultrasound and wait 24 hours before having an abortion? Does he realize that women outnumber men? Does he have a clue? Does he think he lives on another planet?
The former state attorney general is taking plenty of heat from plenty of level-headed people for defending legislation dubbed the Women’s Right to Know Act that would treat pregnant women like imbeciles.
For pregnant women who know there is no need to look at a monitor while getting their mandatory ultrasound and have no desire to do so, Mr. Corbett offers this friendly, fatherly advice: “You just have to close your eyes.”
Oh, how nice. That’s the only choice women deserve, according to the paternalistic governor.
Abortion rights in the year 2012 are under attack by far-right politicians, mostly men, who, like Mr. Corbett, can never get pregnant but treat women with utter contempt and thumb their nose at the right to abortion, which became settled law with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973.
Attention, all women who cherish their privacy and all men who respect women: Let Tom Corbett know how you feel. Call him at 1–717–787–2500 and send him a message at www.facebook.com/Gov.TomCorbett
Tell him — and Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santorum and other “limited government” proponents — to stay the hell out of your bedrooms and doctor’s offices. ••
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