A Troll Primer on Birth Control
I’ve been pretty outspoken on Twitter lately about the birth control debate (Really? This is a thing? In 2012?) and Rush Limbaugh. Of course, this sort of talk attracts trolls and I have yet to have one who seems to know anything about anything. I’m getting tired of repeating the same facts over and over, so I decided to write up a little primer, so I could simply point them toward it, pat them on the head, and tell them to educate themselves so they don’t have to weather the shitstorm I’m going to rain down on them.
I’m a layperson, in the sense that any woman can be a layperson about birth control, and I’m also pissed, so please excuse any messiness or disorganization or vulgarity in the delivery. And warning: there be snark in them thar hills. Snark. And maybe bitchiness.
1) Why do you think you deserve free birth control?
I don’t think that word means what you think it means. This debate is about insurance coverage of birth control. Is your insurance free? Mine isn’t. Mine costs a buttload of money every month. When you go to your doctor for a check-up that would cost, say, $300 out of pocket and you pay nothing, do you consider that free? Do you pat yourself on the back for pulling one over on the man? Do you dance your way to the parking lot, shouting, “I’m the most wily welfare queen in a world of welfare queens!!!!”? Somehow I suspect you don’t. It’s not free, it’s a service provided by a policy I pay premiums for.
Story of my life.
From feministing’s article: Santorum misses the days of back alley abortions. Don’t you?
What a terrible person Santorum is.
The graph, though, and what is shows (how deaths from abortions declined rapidly and remain very low post-Roe) are both outstanding.
Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Romney strapped his dog to the roof of his car.
Santorum pines for the days of back alley abortions.
Gingrich thinks children should be janitors in order to fix our economy.
Paul puts the word “honest” in front of the word “rape” and tries to pass a federal “Sanctity of Life” bill every year in Congress.
Look. I may disagree with how Obama has handled some stuff. I may not like everything he is doing.
But I am not going to equivocate about where my vote is going in November.
I am going to wallpaper the exterior of my house in Obama 2012 posters.
If reproductive rights is at all one of your top concerns in this next election, there is really no question here.
Also, more pictures like the one above please. 4 more years of that!
Source: 
Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) at the funeral of King George VI.
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