What motivates the Dave Schulthies' of the world?

Stephen Suh over at Cogitamus has a great post up about the underlying misogyny and bizarre psychology that seems to motivate some in the "pro-life" movement,

Senator Schultheis also shows that it's the anti-choice movement which actually dehumanizes embryos and even infants. To him, as to the "pro-life" movement at large, a child is a consequence, a punishment. Pregnancy is what happens to sluts and/or a wife's duty to God and her husband. If Schultheis really thought of embryos as people, there's no way he would flippantly wish AIDS upon one as a way to teach the slutty slut slut the mother a lesson. The pro-choice movement wants every child to be born into families that want them, that can take care of them. That's why pro-choicers are also fighting for universal health care and living wages, for expanded access to child care and pro-family business practices.

It's the anti-choice crowd that thinks FMLA - with its unpaid leave - is dangerously socialist, who think that men who want paternity leave are sissies and/or French and who think healthcare should be more expensive than it is already. If they, for one damn minute, thought that embryos and infants were actual human beings deserving dignity and care, they'd either admit that they're trying to control women for the sake of the children or they'd quit altogether.

That they feel the need to lie about their motives and goals, and that they can dismiss embryos and infants as "consequences," wishing an incurable disease on them to punish sluts, says everything needed about the true moral status of their movement.

Let's not forget this little episode from last legislative session,

A Colorado Springs lawmaker referred Wednesday to unmarried, pregnant teenagers and the fathers as "sluts" who should be made to feel ashamed for their lack of morals.

Rep. Larry Liston's remarks were made during a discussion with health care professionals at a Republican legislative caucus lunch about Colorado's high teen pregnancy rate.

"In my parents' day and age, they were sent away, they were shunned, they were called what they are. There was at least a sense of shame," Liston said of unmarried teen parents. "There's no sense of shame today. Society condones it. . . . I think it's wrong. They're sluts..."

The curtain is being pulled back and the Id of the Colorado GOP is being revealed, it's an ugly sight.