“… Newt Gingrich’s views on birth control, abortion, and the “controversial” personhood movement will be likely targets for Democrats if he wins the 2012 GOP nomination for president.” And, pray tell, what else is new? Anything any Republican candidate supports, has ever said or supported, will make him target for Democrats! Besides which no president has the power to make anything illegal. The candidate who has signed onto the movement is merely making his personal principle on the matter obvious, as the one who did not sign on is clearly making obvious his principles are a matter of political expedience, but then his history says the same thing as well.
I do not believe any conservative candidate is going to, or could if he wished, “ban birth control,” or even abortion. That is not the issue. The issue is the federal government’s subsidizing it through taxation, which forces millions to pay for that which they are firmly persuaded is morally wrong, thereby making them partners in what they view as sins of others. The sins of others are between themselves and God, but it’s morally wrong to force any to pay for that which the believe is morally wrong. Those who want birth control of any description can pay for it, or keep their legs closed and pants zipped. Sexual promiscuity is not a Constitutional right. And please, the red herring of rape or a woman’s “health” didn’t wash originally, and still don’t.
There are no birth control methods on the market that are not health risks for women, other than the rhythm method, the diaphram, and abstinance. How many men elect vasectomies, which would make life much healthier for their wives? As for rape, what does that have to do with the morality of killing the unborn? Besides that, if the left cared about women being raped, they would be all for prosecuting rapists to the hilt!
