Robert C. Byrd, Ben Nelson, Kent Conrad and Tim Johnson are the four Democrats who would not think twice of legalizing the reproductive enslavement of women for forced human harvesting in the United States.

Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia	Ben Nelson of Nebraska
Tim Johnson of South Dakota	Kent Conrad of North Dakota

These are the faces of our new massas.

I really do not care whether the Republicans had the votes to confirm Alito. Obviously the campaign against Lincoln Chafee worked. The so-called pro-choice Republican symbolically voted against Alito today after voting against a filibuster and for cloture yesterday. Can you imagine if more resources had been put together to target 6-8 Republicans the same way the netroots and independed pro-choice advocacy groups targette Chafee? We would have had a whole different outcome.

The fact of the matter is that women's autonomy and their right to choose how to use their reproductive organs was not put front and center as the single most important issue to fight about. In the case of Chafee, his backstabbing of NARAL was what unleashed the rage of constituents and netrooters alike. It worked.

At the end of the day, choice and the prospect of voting for a man that would think not twice at legalizing forced pregnancies was what brought him to our side of the aisle.

Choice.
Freedom.
Personal Autonomy.

Why are the Democrats and Republicans alike so afraid of standing for these ideals? Why are they so scared of sexually-mature women, no matter how young or old, having complete autonomy over their bodies?