“Well, if you apply that preventative medicine universally, what you end up with is you’ve prevented a generation. Preventing babies from being born is not medicine.”
OMG, Obama is forcing sterilization on people!
Oh wait, no. Obama is just requiring health insurance to cover birth control as a preventative heath measure. Because, as we all know, once a woman takes any measure to prevent pregnancy they will never be able to conceive again.
That was some sarcasm for the uninitiated.
Maybe I missed something, but is the world in the midst of being underpopulated? No?
Considering I know more women who have had children as the result of failed birth control versus either those who have never taken prophylactic methods to prevent pregnancy OR those who have purposefully remained childless* I’m thinking population isn’t really a concern. In fact what I am thinking is that this is actually pretty racist. Kind of like you get the feeling he’s worried about the ‘coloreds’ outbreeding whitey.
The statement was made by Rep. Steve King from Iowa and surprise, surprise. He’s white, catholic and has a problem with minorities. He’s for racial profiling, against equal rights for gays and wants to kick all illegal immigrants out of the country. He’s also been particularly charming about the US President, suggesting that Islam extremist would applaud his election and that Barack Obama’s policies, “demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race – on the side that favors the black person.” C-LAS-SY!
The we have the crazy religious perspective from Jeffrey Kuhner of the Edmund Burke Institute.
“In short, liberals want to create a world without God and sexual permissiveness is their battering ram. Promoting widespread contraception is essential to forging a pagan society based on consequence-free sex,”
OK, seriously? Who the heck uses the phrase battering ram when talking about sex(ual) permissiveness? It’s just begging to be taken out of context. “Oh dear, Winston’s idea of foreplay was “Effie, brace yourself.”♠
Besides that? So. Many. Questions! Like: How come pagan religions were a their peak LONG before the creation of over-the-counter hormonal contraception? More seriously: Who actually believes in “consequence-free sex”? Those who promote comprehensive sex education, encouraging individuals to be safe from disease and to choose pregnancy when they are ready for the commitment that entails? Or those who think having a dozen kids will be all hunky dory as long as you’ve signed a marriage certificate regardless of health and financial stability?
Trust me, those who encourage access to birth control generally have a much better handle on the effects of sex.
What worries me however, is not only the increasing amount that reproductive choice is being attacked but how more and more things we take for granted are being attacked. Abortion was always a sticky issue but then they went after comprehensive sex education in schools and now birth control?
“Slippery slope” is considered a logical fallacy but the world isn’t logical. As social conservatives gain ground chipping away at abortion rights in the USA they become more embolden to attack other areas of women’s reproductie lives.
* Which may be because I’m still fairly young in the grand scheme of things
♠ I wonder what rating this movie would have had without the William’s ad-libs.
