Younger conservatives may be looking up and saying, wow, their party,
the GOP is almost like that dog that actually managed to catch the car and
has gotten its snout smashed in.
Last week, all but eight Republicans in the US House voted against the bill
that would protect access to contraceptives, contraceptives.
Republican opposition to the bill surprised no one except the conservatives,
younger conservatives who voted these politicians into office.
Here's a sample.
Farting Tacos, a conservative says why vote against HR 8373 birth control bill?
Okay, my ignorance is showing.
I'm looking at HR 8373 and having a difficult time reading it because all I
hear in my head is Nancy Pelosi's shrill voices if she were reading the dang thing.
Why would anyone vote against the bill?
I've been a conservative my entire life and
even I would support something that ensures that a contraceptive was available
to anyone who wanted actual family planning services.
Are people concerned that abortions would be considered contraceptives?
Is it a gateway during drug kind of situation?
I've got to be missing something here, insights and thoughts.
By the way, that post got almost 2000 up votes.
So a lot of people agreed.
Here's some of the comments on that post.
Birth control has literally prevented more abortions than any other
entity hands down.
It's true, Bobby Wake writes,
it also prevents a lot of STDs, maybe that is the reason.
High caliber Mitch, another conservative.
It's not even a government will pay bill.
The owned one wrote, who was voting against this?
I really want to know, I will be watching my Republican congressman regarding this.
My mother and I are conservative and fully support it.
We believe birth control prevents abortions.
It's a good thing.
Environmental East Road because we're on the wrong side, follow the money.
Birth control is acceptable.
Same as voting against pot.
We're getting left behind.
Our causes are being lost because our leaders are stuck in 1900.
Someone else writes, I never thought leopards would eat my face.
Sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
By the way, in terms of the polling Americans massively support access
to contraception that won't come as much of a surprise.
Birth control enjoys broad public support.
A large majority of all adults, 80 6%, regardless of race,
ethnicity, religion and political affiliation and
region support access to all methods of contraception.
Nearly nine and 10 adults,
87% agree that everyone deserves access to the full range of birth control methods,
no matter who they are, where they live and what their economic status is.
Agent, for the last couple of years, a lot of women's rights groups have been saying,
you know what, it's not gonna be just.
We're banning abortion except in the cases of the rape, incest and
life of the mother.
They're gonna go full ban on abortions and a lot of more centrist Democrats said, no,
no, no, that's not what the Republicans want.
The Republicans will never commit political suicide by going that far and
by banning all abortions, by banning contraception, and
that's what they're doing in state after state.
The Evangelicals, the right wing Christian fundamentalists have said,
okay, we got a victory at the Supreme Court, let's go even further.
So, the people who were worried years ago have been proven right and
a lot of Democrats, in my view, have been caught asleep at the switch.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
It's like there have been so many of us out there who have been speaking truth and
it's just so
incredibly weird because people of course they don't want to listen.
But now they're gonna be in situations, especially this one in particular where if
you lose access to contraceptives, all of a sudden as a man,
maybe you thought this doesn't bother me because it doesn't impact me.
But all of a sudden you're gonna be stuck with some kids you don't want,
how's that gonna go for you?
There are so many people out there who have buried their head in the sand,
who don't listen to people, who don't listen to experts.
Don't listen to people who have dogs in the fight and
then they're just stuck on stupid and all of a sudden they're shocked and shaken and
I really don't have anything more for them.
It's like you don't listen anyway, so why am I going to exhaust myself again by
trying to educate you about what's to come, just suffer the consequences.
The crummy part is that it's gonna be people like me and
people who look like me, who are gonna suffer the most.
It's just a matter of, so many people didn't wanna do a damn thing about it when
they could, so, I don't know.
>> Look, I remember 25 years ago during the Clinton administration, and I think it
was Bill Clinton who said something like we need to make abortions less necessary.
And that was his way of saying, let's have more sex education in school,
let's make contraception more readily available.
Let's pass out condoms at community centers,
let's make sure people know how to use contraception.
And Republicans who said that they were against abortion, didn't want to go there.
They didn't wanna talk about contraception,
they didn't want to talk about birth control.
And some of us, I think of the media just said, okay,
well this is too squeamish of an issue for them.
Maybe they're worried politically about their evangelical base and
so they just don't wanna talk about it.
Even though when you talk to most Republicans away from the cameras will
say, of course we believe in contraception,
of course we believe in birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
But now the Republicans are stuck.
It's like now we found out no, Republicans really just didn't
wanna address the issue, they didn't wanna address birth control.
They wanted to go a lot farther than abortion.
And so for younger conservatives in particular and
have had a couple of friends now who have said they have family members.
Who are one family member who's not gonna go to university,
Tulane University in Louisiana because that's a state that has some
of the most draconian laws against reproductive rights.
Somebody else who's not gonna go to school in University of
Texas law school because of the Texas.
So it feels like this is the next step that, okay for Democrats who progresses,
yes, we lost the Supreme Court.
But now there is a price that we can exact on these institutions and
on people by using the power of our pocketbooks and wallets to say, okay,
if you're a state that's gonna do this, then you're gonna have to pay.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
The fact is that's gonna hit our economy, our GDP,
everything about how we do business is now going to tank.
The problem is that a lot of states, many of us blue states have been sustaining
the rest of the nation, Kelly WhatsApp are gonna have to bear even more when everyone
else starts going under.
When people don't wanna go to certain states, when those institutions and
businesses start falling apart.
And it's unfair because also the decisions they're making are unwise.
They're curving people's civil rights without having any good reason whatsoever.
Other than wanting to maintain this faux puritanical nonsense upon which our nation
is built even though it does nothing more than wax poetic to the ignorance.
And I am tired of it, the vast majority of Americans are tired of it.
But if they don't start voting in a way that doesn't focus on
uplifting white male supremacy, we are simply gonna get more of it.
>> I agree, 100%.
And I feel like there are a lot of reasons to be embarrassed and
by the United States, by our racist past and present.
By the way, police have disparities and how they treat white people and
black people by to the incarceration rates and the differences.
And also the way our society has treated women for so long and so
many of us thought, okay, but we were making progress.
And we have been making progress and now this is like such a giant step backwards.
It's humiliating, it's embarrassing whether you go around the world and in
other countries, people in other countries say what is wrong with America these days?
Was once supposed to be the sort of shining beacon on a hill,
shining light on a hill and now it's going dark.
It's like America is headed back to the medieval ages and
women, this is not a safe place for women anymore.
That's where this country has become and it's a crying shame.
And hopefully hopefully there's enough of us who will stand up and act and
take action, whether it's direct action by voting and participation.
Or whether it's action, we're using our wallets and
our pocketbooks to make sure that society sees there is a cost for
going backwards and the cost should not be born by the least among us.