How Many American Conservatives Believe In Birth Control?

There are moments when I feel a bit 'looney', uttering thoughts that sound impossible to believe, as I read them. Overturning Rose vs Wade is one of those phrases."Impossible," I would have said, even in 2000.

Peppering my writing with the word 'patriarchy' was very strange, when I reintroduced it about 12 months ago. Now major columnists of both genders are again using the word 'patriarchy', acknowledging just how far we haven't come in America and around much of the world.

My Google searches are scaring even me. Just now I queried whether or not Sarah Palin believes in birth control? The answer is 'yes'. Sigh of relief.

Palin may embrace contraception, but the Vatican doesn't. No surprise in that fact.

Reading just now the TIME magazine cover story Love, Sex, Freedom, and Paradox I noted that writer Nancy Gibbs used the word 'patriarchy', too, in describing American Conservative values as quoted by prominent American feminists, who have finally gotten the post-Obama (man, woman -- it doesn't matter to us) wakeup call.

Being the good journalist, Nancy Giibbs tapped into Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a group of Conservative guys who believe that women are officially subordinate to men.

In silence that's defeaning, Mohler didn't disagree that the strategic desire of the Southern Baptist guys to reassert Conservative patriarchal values includes taking away birth control for American women.

In fact, this strategy could work for these guys. Writing yesterday Pornography Industry Revs Up for Apple iPad, I espressed the possibility:

Conservative men may be the greatest consumers of pornography but they simultaneously condemn women for being sinful, immoral creatures for enjoying sex. We are headed into a future that could divide into two distinct sexual avenues:

1. Perfunctory sex couples who procreate, and the remainder of the time hubby watches porn, while wife feels guilty.

2. Engaged couples who explore a more spiritual, tantic, connected and humanistic exploration of sexual ecstacy.

Under this scenario, Conservatives live as the 'perfunctory sex couple', watching their porn and having sex with wives when they wish to procreate. Because their wives aren't allowed birth control, the chance of a successful impregnation is high. Soon they will own a 'womb with occupant', to use Rep Stupak's phrase.

What a neat and tidy little web they are weaving for us American women.

Read on: Will Conservatives Move To Take Away Women's Right To Birth Control?