We've already lost

I finally finished my book “Blogging for Dummies.” One of the lessons was that a blogger should never quote from articles.  Put in links instead.  I’m completely ignoring that to quote at length from an article from Nicholas D. Kristof that appeared in the New York Times on September 2.  Here’s what Kristof wrote:

• If an American woman in uniform is raped and becomes pregnant, Congress bars Tricare military insurance from paying for an abortion.

• If an American woman in the Peace Corps becomes pregnant, Congress bars coverage of an abortion--and there is no explicit exception even if she is raped or her life is in danger.

• When teenagers in places like Darfur, Congo or Somalia survive gang rapes, aid organizations cannot use American funds to provide an abortion.

• A record number of states have curbed abortions in the last two years.  According to the Guttmacher Institute, which follows reproductive health, 55% of women of reproductive age now live in one of the 26 states deemed “hostile to abortion rights.”

• The Republican campaign platform denounces contraceptive education in schools.  Instead, it advices kids to abstain from sex until marriage.

We talk about what Romney and Ryan would do if elected.  It seems to me that in large part it’s already been done.  What cruel and nasty programs have already been enacted by Republicans.  It is difficult for me to understand how people can be so mean.