GOP racism, misogyny and anti-single mother sentiment has risen to a new level. Kansas GOP Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Wingnutteria) has suggested that Barack Obama and Clarence Thomas' mothers may have aborted them if only they could do it for free.
Huffington Post reports:

If you think of it in human terms, there is a financial incentive that will be put in place, paid for by tax dollars, that will encourage women who are -- single parents, living below the poverty level, to have the opportunity for a free abortion," said Tiahrt. "If you take that scenario and apply it to many of the great minds we have today, who would we have been deprived of? Our president grew up in a similar circumstance.

"If that financial incentive was in place, is it possible that his mother may have taken advantage of it?"* Tiahrt asked. "Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice, if those circumstances were in place, is it possible that we would be denied his great mind? The opportunity to have tax-funded abortions, a financial incentive, is something that I think most of us want to oppose in America and it's certainly deserves a clean up or down vote."

Exactly a week after America celebrated her independence day, about 8 or 10 of us gathered in a parking lot near a doughnut shop in Milpitas, California. Two were staffers from Equality California, and the rest of us were volunteers who cared enough to get out of bed sometime before 9 in the morning on a Saturday. Cared enough, that is, about restoring marriage for same sex couples in the State of California. You see, we were part of a statewide effort to talk to voters in areas that voted against marriage for gay and lesbian couples last November. I want to write a few words about the experience.

Now I am a seasoned canvasser. I have been knocking on doors for issues and candidates since 2003. And as a seasoned canvasser, I can tell you that that butterfly in your stomach before you start walking each day is never, ever going to go away. Well, not until you actually start hitting the doors. Each day. But this canvass was a different from even what I am used to. We weren't out there trying to get voters to vote for or against a ballot initiative or a candidate. We were trying to begin a conversation - especially with those who are opposed to marriage for same sex couples. You see, as a gay man, this is personal for me. To me, marriage is about a strong bond of love and commitment, about raising a family, and about being able to hold ourselves and our love up as no smaller and no lesser than anyone else's. That is why this conversation was important, and that is why I was incredibly impressed with the format. We didn't have a strict script. We had a few conversation starters. We were encouraged to engage voters in conversations and tell our own stories - to make it personal, to make this fight truly our own.