What a Rick Perry Presidency Would Look Like for Women

Mean Rachel posted a blog titled “What a Rick Perry Presidency Would Look Like for Women” on August 17, 2011. As implied by the title the blog post describes, in a sarcastic manner, what it would mean for women across America to have Rick Perry as President. The Writer, Mean Rachel, emphasizes her contempt for the current Governor of Texas by describing him as “something that has seemingly always been around, but has long since lost its purpose.”

Mean Rachel’s blog attempts to appeal to women voters in America. She states current laws and mandates the Governor has enforced in Texas to make her point. The writer mentions a study done in 2005 stating  “teens in Texas were actually having more sex after undergoing an abstinence only program”. Thus bashing Rick Perry’s “tired and true abstinence methods”.

The writer also makes several assumptions of what Rick Perry’s course of actions, will be as President. According to her, Perry’s “first order of business… would be the creation of the Department of Interior Contraception, or DIC.” This department will, with no doubt, enforce abstinence as the widely accepted, reliable form of contraception.  The writer also claims that “Perry plans to punish” the sinners that do not follow the abstinence method. By imposing “mandatory transvaginal sonograms for women who are 8 to 10 weeks pregnant and seeking and abortion.” A pilot program Perry has already started in Texas.

Mean Rachel points out the irony in Rick Perry’s “policies to protect unborn children whenever possible” by mentioning that Texas has the highest number of adults without high school diplomas, and “first in the nation in the percentage of children without health insurance.” The writer expresses her concern for the future of these children “because – President Perry, just like Governor Perry, certainly doesn’t plan to care for them.”

Personally I am not thrilled at the thought of possibly having Rick Perry as my president. I do agree with Mean Rachel’s point of view, but would not recommend this blog to an individual researching Rick Perry’s political beliefs. I do not believe the assumptions in this blog are incorrect, however, it is heavily opinionated, in thus making room for biased information.