If America's future is to be secure, regressing to a religious state is not the answer

The same people attacking women's rights to choose and excluding their opinions on the matter are reminiscent of the male Elders of the Dark Ages Church Councils determining the rules and laws of the people. The Christian Right decries the loss of women's rights in the Sharia Law-oriented Muslim society but are tirelessly pushing us toward a similar set of laws here, in our "free" nation. These few Republicans, people largely pushing sexual conservatism on their "holy" platform, tell us they want less governmental interference in our lives; that all answers lay with the people rather than with the government, but many in the Party are happily pushing governmental control of our bedrooms and personal lives.

Further standing as a contradictory stance, the proponents of anti-choice from the right speak vehemently about wasted money and banning funding for Planned Parenthood but are spending millions of dollars to negate the Supreme Court's decision on the matter.

As pointed out by Mary Wisniewski and Jo Ingles ,

"Even without a direct assault on Roe through the Supreme Court, the cost to states to defend abortion restrictions can run high. Kansas, for example, has spent nearly $400,000 in legal bills in six months defending new laws to restrict abortion this year, according to the Kansas attorney general's office. Of the total, $237,834 was spent on private lawyers defending efforts to strip Planned Parenthood of federal family planning funds.

Planned Parenthood was paid $623,000 in fees by South Dakota resulting from two challenges to abortion laws over a decade. This did not count the state's own attorney hours and resources, according to Jennifer O. Aulwes, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota.

The state's Legislative Research Council estimated that the cost of defending a law passed in March requiring a three-day waiting period for an abortion could be between $1.7 and $4 million, according to executive director James Fry. South Dakota chose not to appeal a preliminary injunction.

Another South Dakota abortion law is before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A donation-funded "life protection" sub fund to defend abortion laws has a balance of $63,387, according to Sara Rabern, spokes woman for the attorney general's office.

Other states in court over abortion-related restrictions passed this year include Indiana, North Dakota, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas."

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