Rick Perry’s Vasectomy:

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http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/09/11/rick-perry-vasectomy-governors-reliance-what-denies-fellow-texans-0


Rick Perry’s Vasectomy: The Governor's Reliance on What He Denies to His Fellow Texans


Rick Perry has only two children?! As the biographical information flashed by on television during a recent debate of Republican presidential hopefuls, it was strangely incongruous to see that the rising star of the religious right was so woefully behind his competitors. Rick Santorum and Jon Hunstman led the pack with seven kids each, followed by Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Michelle Bachman with five (and the 23 children she had fostered). To be sure, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain also had a paltry two, but they, unlike Perry, were not considered to be the new favorite of the social conservative wing of the Republican. Recent polls show Perry supplanting Bachman in that role, notwithstanding her impressive numbers.

Perry’s late entrance into the race saved him from the awkwardness of having to deal with the “pro-marriage pledge," put forth by a leading Iowa conservative activist, and signed by some of his fellow candidates who had competed in that state’s straw poll. This pledge, among other things, asked signers to affirm that “robust childrearing and reproduction is beneficial to U.S. demographic, economic, strategic and actuarial health and security.” (Shortly after his official entry into the race, Perry did sign yet another pledge, this one in support of a federal amendment against gay marriage).

The reason that Rick Perry has “only” two children, one can say with confidence about this normally private matter, is because of the widely disseminated fact of his vasectomy. cited in the New York Times among other places. (This procedure, to the delight of late night comedians, was apparently performed by his father-in-law).

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But that of course won’t happen. Perry’s choice of a vasectomy serves to highlight a mean-spiritedness toward the contraceptive options of his fellow Texans who don’t have family members who are surgeons. As governor, he presides over a state in which 25 percent of adult men have no health insurance, the highest rate in the country (the U.S. average is 16 percent). A vasectomy can cost up to one thousand dollars at some clinics, and doubtless more at others. Uninsured Texans who want a vasectomy would no doubt be unable to pay out of pocket for it given the low wages for which the Texas economy has become infamous.

-snip about how he is still against anything for women in this regard-
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[Ineeda]

1. It struck me that your use of the 'snip'

is unintentionally ironic.:rofl: (not making light of the issue, however.)

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2. lol thanks for pointing that out lol

nt

[brer cat]

3. Has anyone asked him...

why he didn't use abstinence if he didn't want any more children?

[SpiralHawk]

4. What is is with Republicons and hypocrisy

Hypocrisy just permeates every molecule of their so-called souls.

[LeftinOH]

5. Knowing that he's no longer "potent" might put a lot of righties off him;

Real men don't shoot blanks (in the Red State mindset).