I have enjoyed a break from his Taliban views but nothing lasts forever, alas. Rick Santorum wants to be the boss of us all (president) and so he is making statements like this:
Social Security's future insolvency problem is caused in part by abortion, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said Tuesday.Then the writer I link to goes on to figure out pay rates and such for the aborted Americans.
The presidential aspirant and devout social conservative told a New Hampshire radio station on Tuesday that the cash shortfalls facing the 76-year-old Social Security system could be lessened if not for the country's "abortion culture." He was responding to a caller who made similar comments.
"Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion," he said. "We are depopulating this country, and we're seeing the birth rate is below replacement rate for the first time in history."
But why stop there? Surely birth control is stopping many more Americans from being born than abortion! We should ban birth control. If every woman had, say, six children, and if each of those six children one day earned 60,000 dollars a year and...
This is stupid. But it is also part of the war against women by certain right-wing groups. They see women as fields for children to be grown in and want to have control over those fields, either because of race-wars or because of the power that comes with large populations or because of fiscal reasons. Or all of them.
At the same time, those very same groups are the ones who oppose parental leaves, daycare, public schools, affordable health care and all the other things which might make having children easier. It's all whip and no carrot for us women.