Fight Over Women's Right to Choose Splits GOP
E. P. Silins
| Revision History | ||
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| • November 13-27, 1991 | Newspaper: Funded by Syracuse University students. | |
| The Alternative Orange: Vol. 1, No. 2 (pp. 2) | ||
| • August 24, 2000 | Webpage:  . | |
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To the Editor:
The abortion struggle is splitting the Republican Party apart. Most GOP women understandably want to maintain their Constitutionally-recognized right of freedom of choice for themselves and their underage daughters. Many GOP men, however, want to curry favor with the strident anti-choice extremists who are hell bent on imposing strict government controls over women's bodies. Their goal is to ban abortion in the US.
This situation presents a sticky problem for George Bush, the Party leader, but the outlines of his game plan are becoming clear. First, by packing the Supreme Court with hard-core conservatives, he plans to get Roe v. Wade overturned and to proceed with transforming women's basic right into a crime. GOP women will be angry; so, in order to pacify them, Bush will give them Cuba (just like Clarence Thomas is his gift to Afro-Americans).
Before the Castro-led revolution in 1959, Cuba's economy was dominated by US corporations and the Mafia. A significant part of the economy depended on affluent white American women who would fly to the island for a tropical vacationÑand to have an abortion at the same time, because they were banned in the US.
Bush would like to turn back the clock to those times. He has already been pressuring the Soviets to withdraw their protection from Cuba so as to allow the US to stage a tropical version of Desert Storm, ideally timed to coincide with his 1992 re-election campaign. Then the Mob will follow up and re- establish the spas, casinos, and abortion facilities, just like in the old days. Rich Republican women and girls will thus have their convenient “offshore” choice services. Democratic and Independent women and girls who can't afford such “vacations” will be stuck back here with unwanted children and bloody coathangers. Of course, if Cuba becomes a Viet Nam, then large numbers of dead and disabled GIs will also be added to the cost of the Bush-Quayle political recipe.
E. P. Silins (Syracuse, N.Y.)
