The GOP Agenda: Controlling the Rights of (Re)Production

[TheNewMe]

This is an interesting article, which ties GOP anti-abortion tactics to their support of corporations. I've had this feeling lately that all the anti-abortion legislation lately is not just to pacify the "pro-life" voters, but there is something in it for the GOP outside of that. One viewpoint:


http://www.politicususa.com/en/the-gop-a...production

PoliticsUSA
June 21, 2011
By Cassandra Vert

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Corporations would like to drive down the worldwide cost of human capital in order to own and manage a world economy. We have already seen how this is accomplished. On the production side, corporations play leapfrog, moving factories from country to country based on marginal labor savings. On the revenue side, they drain the private assets of countries whose citizens still have money. With no resources, the citizens are ripe to be exploited as the next labor force.
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What has the GOP tried to do?

• Eliminate sex education in schools, especially any discussion of contraception.
• Eliminate family planning clinics like Planned Parenthood, which offer contraception and education.
• Proscribe how doctors educate patients about abortion—favoring medically inaccurate discouragements.
• Restrict access to abortion by restricting when and where they can occur and adding prerequisites.
• Create fetal rights as another tool to restrict abortions.
  

The cumulative results of these policies are younger parents with less education. We know that reduction of sex education correlates to an increase in teen pregnancy. Teens don’t stop having sex; they just do it with less awareness. When girls have babies, it sharply reduces the odds they will finish their education. For the boys that stay to support the family, it means they probably quit school to take a low-wage job. These young families have long odds of staying together and of getting out of poverty. Thus, this is an anti-family course of action that leads to a splintered, alienated populace.
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What could you do with such a population? Few would have the skills to start a business, and fewer would have the capital. They would be ripe for exploitation in low-wage corporate drone jobs.
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[PoliticalTiger]

Yes, and I think how the Republican governor of Maine just signed into law a rollback of child labor rights only goes to illustrate the point!

[nofurylike]

(06-21-2011 10:55 PM)PoliticalTiger Wrote:  Yes, and I think how the Republican governor of Maine just signed into law a rollback of child labor rights only goes to illustrate the point!

omg, Political Tiger.
it is impossible to overstate what monsters they are.

[nofurylike]

it is always especially sickening when they confirm the worst we think of them.

thank you for posting that, TheNewMe.

[jaxx]

What scares me is that the pubs have always used abortion as their main wedge, but they do nothing about it. Now they are moving on terrible legislation that will affect women state by state unless they are stopped. What has brought them to the point of actually trying to take down roe v wade? What has given them the sudden right to ignore law and twist it into their fundie attitudes?

There has been a change in the pubs. Is it the tea party, the fringe taking over? Look at the other things....collective bargaining, child labor laws, they are undoing years of good for the people and they are wanting more.