I posted this on the Oklahoma forum (for obvious reasons and please forgive the Oklahoma references that I left in) and got very little response aside from one person who said Oklahomans would probably go along with it and that worried him/her. Actually, that Oklahomans would probably agree would make it easier to do this in the sense that they would provide cover for the fact that this was actually an opposition operation. It would also work in Pennsylvania. Please Pennsylvanian DU'ers, let me know what you think. The premise is drive the most extreme Repubicans further to the right thus creating a wedge to split the Party, wake-up some right of center folks creating an anti-Republican backlash, and garner media attention for their hypocrisy on social issues.
You have one of the nuttiest, right-wing senators in the country. Make it work for us instead of against Dems and progressives.
Here's the idea. You are all (hold your noses) constitutents of Senator Lesbian Encounters in Public School Bathrooms Coburn so he has to listen when his "conservative" constituents bombard him with a request. What you want is for him to pass a federal law/constitutional amendment making the prescribing of birth control on the grounds that they are abortifacients (causes the abortion of preborn babies by preventing them from finding a safe home in their mother's womb) AND outlawing in vitro fertilization (destruction of human life). Actually, you'll have edit out my sarcasm.
The point is to push the Republican to wildly unpopular positions, stances, and actions (proposing legislation) by pushing them to the logical endpoints of their positions. And this is just the issue to do it because tens of millions of couples (married and unmarried) are just not going to sit still to be pushed back to barrier methods of contraception. The point is to use their own belief systems (its an inviolate human life the instant the sperm penatrates the egg) to drive a wedge between the real fruitcakes (Coburn) and his only slightly less nutty colleagues and at the same time alerting the population to where this could all end up (taken to its logical conclusions). And you need to get a grassroots campaign going. "We elected you and now we want you to do this for us." At some point you could enlist (might be useful as cover) some local right-wing conservatives (surely you have a few), which you could find through the information below.
Here's an article
http://www.prevention.com/article/0,5778,s1-1-93-35-413... to help you get started.
Note from the article
" signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which gives a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus separate legal status if harmed during a violent crime." Note fertilized egg protection.
Your letters and calls to Coburn make great hay out of the protection this law affords fertilized eggs from violence while millions of their brother and sister preborn babies (honest, I don't think I can write "fellow fertilized eggs") are denied the safety of their mothers' wombs and thus are killed by their very own mothers. It's not fair that only some are protected in life when all should be.
and I'm sure you can find more information here (from the article)
anti-Pill organization Pro-Life America on the group's Web site, ProLife.com.
and also from the article
"In the past decade or so, the "hormonal birth control equals abortion" view has quietly grown roots in the antiabortion underground. It's spread from doctor to doctor, through local newsletters, in books with titles such as Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions? (written by Randy Alcorn, an Oregon-based antiabortion pastor and author). . . . An Internet search turns up thousands of Web sites containing articles with titles such as "The Pill Kills Babies," "Are Contraception and Abortion Siamese Twins?" and "The Dirty Little Secrets about the Birth Control Pill."
Come on, you can do it, hoist them on their own petard. Your state just handed all of us (with your help) an unmatched opportunity. And don't let Coburn weasel out. Keep pushing and pushing and pushing. Drown him in entreaties to do this and don't let up.
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