Pro-Choice Hiding In Strange Places?

Bob Cesca writes a pretty interesting piece about how he came to the pro-choice conclusion, and then makes some thoughtful points about what Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin have to say.  While claiming to be staunch pro-lifers, they have a few verbal missteps.  

It was Carl who gets partial credit for my transformation into a liberal Democrat.

Here's how he did it.

It was one question during a debate about abortion. One interrogative sentence. I remember exactly where Carl and I were standing in the high school library when he asked me this question: "If your girlfriend got pregnant, what would you do?" Almost without thinking, I replied, "Well, it would be her choice to make -- ohhhh." And there you go. I had admitted to being pro-choice without realizing I was pro-choice until that very minute. And of course, being intellectually honest, I conceded the point to Carl.

With that one question, Carl had ignited an epiphany of sorts that led me to liberalism. Naturally it should be "her choice." It was so obvious. What else was I supposed to do? Hold her hostage and force her to birth our (rhetorical) child? Her body, her choice.

In two different instances, Cesca points to Bachmann and Palin talking about "choice" in context of pregnancy.  For Bristol's "choice" to keep her child, to thoughts of her "choice" with Tripp, Palin speaks of an alternative.  Bachmann goes on a nice little rant about how women want their own choices in health care and respect for their medical rights.  Bachmann then says that with Obamacare that may be in danger.


Cesca and I leave each other when he indicates that this demonstrates a belief in choice.  I disagree.  It's a mere acknowledgement that there is one, compounded by their own hypocrisy.  Bachmann would say Obamacare is the reason pickles are green, as she has a contractual obligation to say Obamacare in every single speech she gives.  Palin makes a big deal about her choice and never shows gratitude that she had one.  She implies her choice is right for every woman out there.  As for Bristol, she'll never know what it's like to flip burgers for minimum wage and turn 80% of her check to daycare because dad is either not in the picture or flipping his own burgers to try to pay for rent, groceries, utilities and lack of insurance.  It's just another case of comparing apples and oranges. 


The only thing Bachmann and Palin have in common is that they would sell out all women for their political agenda.  Which makes them so deplorable the mere thought of them makes me shudder with disgust.