Pansynthesis

"…even though most people, when pressed, don’t have the nerve to force women to have babies against their will, anti-choicers aren’t entirely wrong about their ability to use female sexuality to stir up anger and fear. The problem is that when you get people to think about this logically, they’re pro-choice. But when you appeal to them emotionally, they’re all too easily sucked into hating on sluts, believing female sexuality is dangerous, and wanting it to be controlled. When asked specifics about how it should be controlled, people balk—they want it to be controlled, but they don’t want there to be actual force involved, in part because most Americans have female sexuality as part of their own sex lives, and they don’t want their own bedrooms invaded. The key to creating a sex panic is making the panickers believe this is about Other Women. And unfortunately, 65 Democrats are convinced that this amendment is about punishing Other Women, not their own voters.

"There’s two lessons here. One is that there is no such thing as 'common ground'. Obama and other conciliatory pro-choice Democrats keep insisting on believing that anti-choicers are in this for the fetuses, and therefore will be wooed by common ground attempts to reduce the abortion rate through contraception use. [...]

"The other lesson is that anti-choicers will always push for more. There is no such thing as satisfying them, because no matter what they do, women continue fucking. Or, Other Women continue fucking—anti-choicers make an exception for their own selves or sex partners, whose sexuality is acceptable, and whose abortions are necessary. We knew when the anti-choice nuts got involved, that they would probably be able to get a ban on the public option covering abortion. But since that was almost certain, they pushed for more—depriving not just the poor of their abortion coverage, but all women in the U.S.

"[...] Now they have a precedent of banning insurance companies from covering abortion, but this will not, of course, stop women from fucking. So contraception is next. And if you doubt me, remember what happened when the Democrats tried to include contraception access expansion in the stimulus bill. There was a full-blown sex panic, the fear that those Other Women would be fucking. They will try to harness that energy, and this precedent, all to force your insurance company to stop covering your pill, your IUD, and possibly any gynecological care associated with them. That Pap smear that you get before your prescription is refilled? Under anti-choice reasoning, prepare to hear that described as 'abortion'."

Remember, the liberal position IS the compromise position. Don't like divorce / abortion / same-sex marraige? Don't get one. –L.