Given the GOP’s obsession with making health care decisions for girls and women, you may have wondered how any self-respecting physician could identify with the Republican Party.
Rep. Doug Cox (R-OK) is wondering the same thing. Responding to legislation that would deny poor women contraception that would prevent abortions, Cox, a doctor, decided that he had to speak out in a letter to the The Oklahoman:
All of the new Oklahoma laws aimed at limiting abortion and contraception are great for the Republican family that lives in a gingerbread house with a two-car garage, two planned kids and a dog. In the real world, they are less than perfect.
ThinkProgress points out that Cox has a history of speaking out about his party’s policies that encourage back-alley abortions and a recent winner of Planned Parenthood’s Barry Goldwater Award.
The doctor recently suggested that his views aren’t so unpopular with Republicans in private.
“I have people who tell me they feel the way I do, but are afraid to vote the way I do,” he said.
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