It Continues to Be a Real Mystery Why Republicans Aren't Connecting with a Majority of Female Voters

[Content Note: Misogyny; reproductive policing; choice policing; disablist language; heterocentrism.]

Sheila Kihne is a very conservative Republican candidate running to unseat Minnesota Republican state Rep. Jenifer Loon, who Kihne believes is insufficiently conservative. And she's got some neat ideas about women!
On a blog she discontinued in 2009, she wrote that President Barack Obama was leading the one-world-order communists and demanded that single mothers be denied formal wedding ceremonies.

"Don't you think that if you're having a baby — and you're not married — that you should forego the shower?" she asked. "I also think that if you get married — and are knocked up — you should get married quietly. At a courthouse, at a private home."

Kihne specifically said that there should be no dancing or dinner for prospective brides who are pregnant. She acknowledge that "I'm seen as very cold-hearted with this issue and it's caused a couple of big arguments in my family," but insisted on standing her ground against "the idiots in Hollywood who make it look 'cool' to tote a baby around sans daddy."

...Kihne bills herself as a "small-government conservative," but is unafraid to insert herself into every aspect of a person's life.

She wrote a book with her sister about convincing men that the woman who purchased it is "the one." According to the "About the Author" section of The List — which promises to teach women how to convince their prospective husbands to "take 7 swift actions to secure [their] love forever" — Kihne is one of a pair of "fiery sisters who share a passion for telling other people what to do."
She sounds terrific!

This is basically the exact opposite of being pro-choice in all things.

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