"The Republican American Population Explosion Act"
Since the Republicans have now finally tipped their hands and are now actively speaking out against birth control and pretty much all manner of family planning and individual reproductive freedom, the Republicans had better get busy coming up plan for the inevitable population explosion in this country if they manage to succeed in their efforts to dissuade and/or limit the use of modern family planning practices, as well as figuring out the means to provide intensive medical services to manage the inevitable rise of pregnancy-related complications, children with serious medical concerns, and foster care resources for unwanted children, especially those conceived under non-consensual situations.
They might want to ask themselves whether or not they believe our country even has necessary resources and capacity to absorb such a massive population explosion such as that which is likely to result from decreased family planning practices? They no doubt love being able to take advantage of China's "business climate" and horrible human rights record to inflate the already obscene profits of their corporate constituency but they claim to be offended by its horrendous family planning practices that relies on forcibly limiting the numbers of girls born via sex-selection/abortion. The Republicans surely do not want us to have to (likely) resort to extraordinary family planning practices like China someday, do they? Will there be enough housing, employment, and other resources to support an even larger population in this country, particularly given that resources are already painfully limited for a lot of people in this country, not to mention the Republican assault on the safety net and the economy?
No matter what the Republicans think, the lack of access to modern-day birth control and family planning services is not going to dramatically change their sexual habits. Most adults I know are NOT going to be adopting the "aspirin method" nor are most people (not otherwise inclined) going to be turning to a member of the same sex for pleasure w/o pregnancy, which, of course, we know that most Republicans don't (publicly) approve of either.
I'm pretty certain that most Republicans- most of whom have surely utilized modern day family planning practices at one point or another based on the "non-Duggar family size" of their families- have seized on this as an issue as a means to "excite" their base (in a non-sexual way, of course) and hopefully (for them) drive a wedge between President Obama and some of his more religious supporters but, at the end of the day, there are people within their ranks whom are actually going to turn this kind of language into legislation or they're going to be expected to actually DO something about it and then where will they be?
It seems to me that Republicans seem to spend so much time focusing on getting and keeping power that they pay almost no attention whatsoever to what they actually DO once they have it and/or the ramifications of the policies that they will be expected by their base to actually implement. This particular situation is no exception. They have absolutely no idea IMHO the kind of negative consequences that might result from actually preventing/limiting access to family planning and birth control but, of course, the really sad thing is that they wouldn't be willing to do anything meaningful about them anyway.
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