Comments on: Michele Bachmann: radical pro-choice feminist?

By: Sara Pulis

Sara Pulis — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:58:15 +0000

Wow, all those “profits” and they gave me year of the pill followed by an IUD and several pap smears for no charge. As I recall, my pocket wasn’t picked while I was in there. Hmmm…

By: Sophist

Sophist — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:16:03 +0000

Umm… Michele? Maybe you should think really hard about those words that just came out of your mouth?

Why would she? Not doing so got her a job in congress.

By: jm

jm — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:57:18 +0000

Politicalguineapig- Actually, the (politically conservative) woman who was the head of the EPA and lived in Stillwater told an acquaintance of mine that she didn’t drink the city water. Take that as you will.

By: Niki

Niki — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:15:03 +0000

This is why this is hilarious: In the context she meant it, the quote doesn't even make sense. Publicizing health care will by no means lead to decreased control over your body. Trust me Michelle, I'm Canadian, I know. It means the government will be paying for your care, for your own decisions. It means you will have more freedom over your body because you won't be financially prevented doing what you need to do. And by forcibly keeping health care in the hands of private companies and industry, you are contributing to a culture where people can't control their own bodies because they can't afford to.

By: ShinyMae

ShinyMae — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:40:51 +0000

Oh this made me piss my chair, yesterday!

Tarryl Clark had better use this quote in her speeches and attack ads next year!

By: leah

leah — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:05:42 +0000

Ploliticalguineapig – you don’t want to know :P Mostly farm runoff and mutated fish.

Her district does happen to be the most conservative (and I might add richest) single swath of the state, born of some very creative redistricting. I’m quite sure her job is to wave her arms and loudly proclaim “See! MN isn’t a librul state! Conservatives are here too! (implied: Elect Pawlenty President! Even crazy librul backwards MN loves neocons!)” nevermind that if Pawlenty did win the nom, I doubt MN would go for him. He certainly knew he couldn’t get a 3rd term as guv.

By: Politicalguineapig

Politicalguineapig — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:43:38 +0000

*Sigh* Yet another incident of Rep. Bachmann deepthroating her own foot. If anyone’s here from Stillwater, would you like to explain what the heck’s in the water over there?

By: Jadey

Jadey — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:06:10 +0000

Ooookay, but now I’ve read some more about Michele Bachman and I can see that logic doesn’t necessarily enter into it. :D

By: Jadey

Jadey — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:33:07 +0000

Hm, this isn't totally inconsistent with what I've read about expressions of feminism on the conservative side. Rebecca Klatch wrote about conservative feminism in the 1980s (her book is called Women of the New Right, and there's someone at my university studying the next generation of feminist-identified women on the political right. And, yeah, the approach to abortion from a laissez-faire perspective is that the government should first and foremost not be funding such a thing or getting involved on that level. (And I would guess that the additional more socially-conservative assumption is that if the government stopped funding it, the free market would naturally tend towards people not wanting abortions and therefore the "artificially inflated" business would collapse? I guess?) This is not me agreeing with her, just that I have seen this logic quite a few times before.

By: Ms. T

Ms. T — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:13:55 +0000

So what does everyone plan to do when the government gets even more involved in our health care and a third Bush and a republican majority get to make the rules? Keeping the gov. off of your body should not end at your reproductive organs.