Yes, Mr. Rush Limbaugh, I will admit publicly that I have engaged in the most immoral of human depravities by engaging in the practice of using contraception so that I would not bring an unwanted child into the world. But I must warn you however that I do not mind if you call me a "slut" or a "prostitute" as you did one female Georgetown University Law student.
Rather, as a woman who was married when I practiced such an ungodly and unforgiving act in your eyes, I am proud to say that I have only the two children that I carefully and methodically planned for, instead of the 25 more or so I might have had while married and had I not been on birth control. Let us just say that I have very fertile genes.
As most modern women, I consider it my responsibility" how I take on the role of my body as I also do my ethics and role as a human being who has the ability and gift to bring life into this world.
And as most women can attest to, the decision to have or not have children is not one that is taken lightly, but rather more likely with heavy emotional, religious, spiritual and financial philosophies and integral arguments attached that are continually debated within the frameworks of our families, culture, communities and society at large.
This may be just one of the most horridly hypocritical arguments and debacles I have ever witnessed as you-- Mr. Limbaugh-- are also thoroughly and immensely against helping aid families and women who can't afford to feed their children, and concurring with former House Speaker and Presidential Hopeless Newt Gingrich who repeatedly calls President Obama "the food stamp president."
Perhaps you would have been happier if I had not used contraception during my marriage, had given birth to ten children, and then proceeded to "go on the dole" . . . then you could happily scream across the airwaves that I am a low-life welfare mom who gets pregnant just so that I can live off benefits from the government that I do not deserve.
Who do you think gets women pregnant anyway? As my not-too distant memory recalls, I do not believe that I conceived my babies via immaculate conception. I believe there was a man present. And if there was not, someone call the Pope right immediately.
Perhaps men who call women "sluts" and "prostitutes" should keep both their mouths and their zippers shut before spewing such ignorance and self-righteous banter about issues they know nothing about but can only wish to imagine how a real slut or prostitute would answer.
Oh . . . and one more thing, women vote and we are listening.
In the meantime while angry rhetoric continues so as to distract us from the valid issues of this election cycle, I will continue to teach my own daughters the values of self respect, personal responsibility and moral integrity, as well as how the dangers of ignorance can play out in one's life.
Forgive me now as I must excuse myself to engage in some rather prostitution-like behavior.
Have fun figuring that one out.
