In Judie’s case, I think teh stupid needs to be located within her; she believes everything she writes.

One of her virtues, over the years, she has always been fairly open about not supporting contraception and considering it on a par with abortion, whereas most anti-abortionists give lip-service to contraception, though they don’t like it; makes it too easy to have sex, don’t you know. Not for nothing is Judie a Catholic.

In fact, take a look at her CV:

Judie Brown is president and co-founder of American Life League, the nation’s largest grassroots pro-life educational organization.

She is currently serving her second five-year term as a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life in Rome. Daily Catholic cited her as one of the top 100 Catholics of the 20th century.

Brown’s views are so far outside the mainstream, but take a look at her Media CV:

Judie has appeared on 20/20, 60 Minutes, Mother Angelica Live, The O’Reilly Factor, Good Morning America, Today, Oprah, and Larry King Live, as well as hundreds of other television and radio talk shows. Her comments regularly appear in major print media nationwide, and she has written numerous editorial pieces for magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post and USA Today.

And I can assure you that she is never presented in any of those venues as an extremist, whereas all thefeminists and pro-choicers with whom she was paired were, and still are.

Great catch, Sarah. We need to emphasize the views of someone like Judie Brown…and especially passages like this one:

Those images (referring to the media emasculation of American men, i.e., attacks on patriarchal authority) tend to generate suspicion among the young about what it means to be married. Many such portrayals contribute to the idea that nobody — whether married or single — would possibly be happy about bringing children into the world. In fact if one were to take these images and rhetorical word pictures to heart, family life would have gone south a long time ago.

Actually, for one out of every two marriages, it has.

Among the contributing factors, right up there with that great American family, the Simpsons, is contraception. For years it has been touted as the solution to all manner of problems, solutions that always revolve around keeping sexual relations devoid of children.

Americans may feel conflicted about abortion, but the vast majority of them don’t think it’s the government’s business whether or not they choose to use contraception, and I think this is one of the chief weaknesses of the entire ’pro-life’ movement.

As the feminists used to say, “No woman really wants to stay home and raise a bunch of snotty nosed brats anyway.”

Lord, I remember how, back in the day, an hour wouldn’t go by without “the feminists” running up and down our street, shouting to anyone who cared to give a listen “No woman really wants to stay home and raise a bunch of snotty nosed brats anyway.”

Where I lived as a youth, you never saw a bunch of kids blow their noses quicker but when those feminists came around, what with their yelling about juvenile phlegm and whatnot. Those kids knew their lives—and the lives of future snotty nosed brats—hung in the balance. The Steinam Stampede (as we called it) would reach a peak and then trail off as they disappeared down the end of the street, and vanished in a spinning dirt devil, discarded white gloves and burnt bras the only evidence that they had been there at all.

Inspired by Judie Brown’s words, I have now pledged to make a baby every time my tadpoles explode out the ole’ muppet, and to slap the kids but good if they even think about managing their own lives with any reproductively discriminatory practices. Because we’re all just one sponge-worthy night away from the destruction of God’s amusement park, and I want a corn dog, damnit!

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I guess the market is magic except when it shows forced pregnancy is something most women are against:

Sales of the Plan B “morning-after pill” nearly doubled in the past year, exceeding expectations after the U.S. government allowed adults to buy the emergency contraceptive without a prescription.

So much for the “conscience exemption” for asshole winger pharmacists.

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan