According to a group of MSNBC panelists, the Republicans’ ‘War on Women’ extends to the point that they are “sacralizing sperm” and “do not want poor women to have joy.”
During Melissa Harris-Perry on Saturday morning, a group of five women — Anthea Butler, Lizz Winstead, Irin Carmon, Kassi Underwood and host Melissa Harris-Perry — discussed abortion and contraception. Their conclusions weren’t very flattering to the GOP.
“They do not want poor women to have joy,” Winstead proclaimed, seemingly implying that GOP thinks poor women shouldn’t have sex.
Winstead also said that people who aren’t medical doctors should not be allowed to add their voices to the abortion debate. Seemingly none of the women on Saturday’s MSNBC panel were medical doctors.
Butler chimed in that the Right tries to make sperm overly important.
“They want to sacralize sperm, and it’s time that we quit sacralizing sperm in this country and making it be the most important thing that there is,” Butler said.
Butler, a controversial professor at the University of Pennsylvania, also said that Republicans “don’t give a damn” about children after they have been born. Harris-Perry agreed, saying children who are born instead of being aborted “have to go hungry, because that is what will punish you for having had sex.”
(h/t Mediaite)
