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arbusto_baboso

(7,162 posts)
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 01:23 PM Mar 2012

The real irony of the GOP's War on Women.

So we know the repugs are going after contraception (or means of contraception even when not specifically used for birth control, but for medical issues), abortion rights, and they're instituting draconian laws that amount to state-mandated rape.

They're doing all this in the name of "traditional family values".

The incredibly irony of that is that today's "traditional family" (a rare creature, by most measures) of mom, dad and two kids with a middle class income, have been the victim of economic piracy for the last three decades. It is now virtually IMPOSSIBLE for such a family to survive on one income.

Interesting. Push the chimaera of traditional values while making those values impossible to uphold or live. How utterly Republican.

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The real irony of the GOP's War on Women. (Original Post) arbusto_baboso Mar 2012 OP
add "limited government" to "traditional family values" Skittles Mar 2012 #1
If it wasn't hypocritical, izquierdista Mar 2012 #2
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