Both ways?

With the most recent brouhaha over comments about stay-at-home mom Ann D. Romney, it's curious how the GOP can rationalize this thinking with a straight face and expect the American public to accept it.  


On the one hand - Stay-at-home moms are to be respected and admired for the work they have chosen to perform in the home raising their children.  


On the other hand - Women who cannot sustain themselves, by themselves, are  expected to turn their children over to someone else to raise and go off and find out what it feels like to work.


Anyone else see the irony of these two statements?


All the while neither faction of these women is allowed access to birth control or termination of unwanted pregnancy for the purposes of family planning. 


What am I missing?  


If you take away access to birth control, you have more unwanted babies.  The statistics showing the percentage of young girls without a high school education who have children before they are 18 is staggering.  Education is essential for young women to keep them from being put in this situation.


At the same time there is no mention in any of this dialogue of the responsibility of the boy/man who took part in the pregnancy.  When will our society finally rise up and make the male of the population accountable?


Sure, it's easy to find the mother!  Let's make it just as easy to find the father.  


Currently, there is a national database of DNA for felons.  Let's extend that.  Let's create a national database of DNA of every male currently residing in the US and every newborn male.  This will allow for the identification of the father of every child born, and consequently the male responsible for that child.  


Sounds pretty outrageous, huh?  Why?  Is it any more outrageous than requiring a woman who has been raped to carry the rapists child to term?  Really?  This is what happens when pregnancy termination is taken away from women by states even though Federal Law says it is legal!


So, you ask what happens if the male responsible for the child is a minor?  Simple - the minor's parents then become the responsible party until the minor comes of age and takes responsibility.  The beauty of this is that financial responsibility is shared by both parties just as the creation of that life was shared by both parties.


I believe there would be huge backlash by the GOP for this as I can only guess that the "Right to Privacy" argument would be thrown out as the primary concern and legal challenges would abound.  It would be an interesting fight to say the least and perhaps would cause a re-think of the current legislation.  Then again, probably not.