The Breed Amendments

Controversy over women’s reproductive rights by Angry Republican Men has led to a series of issues best described as The Breed Amendments. Personhood Amendments, State Sponsored Vaginal Probes for Women Seeking Abortions, Legislative Hearings on Birth Control and Arguments Limiting or Outright Banning Birth Control without having a single woman testifying, and even Republican Talk Radio Hosts attacking the morals and character of women who dare to attempt to testify are the tools of choice in this version of the War on Women conducted by the GOP.

My grandmother, who was active in the Women’s Suffragette Movement in the late 1800’s and early 20th Century told stories, which I as a child scarcely believed of what is probably described as Men Behaving Very Badly, but here, we will describe as The Breed Amendments. One may recall there is a commercial of a tiny gerbil holding a megaphone and exhorting his fellow gerbils to Row, Row, and Row. Perhaps that same sentiment is at work here with Breed, Breed, and Breed being shouted over the seemingly deaf ears of American Women. Maybe women have become so insulated that comparisons with livestock are appropriate, however my long ago grandmother would certainly have disagreed, and been insulted by these Breed Amendments.

by Tom Love