“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.

The fact that in 2010 the province still had “homosexuality” listed as a mental disorder on the same level of pedophilia? Cue some equivocating about how being gay may contribute to someone’s depression due to peer teasing. Right along with a myriad of reasons kids will pick on other kids. If a child suffers from depression due to faceing racial or disability discrimination, should we slap them with mental disorders as well? We could call them “Not-White Disorder” and perhaps “Mobility Device Affliction.”*

The Alberta Health Ministry has now finally dropped being gay as a disorder, thirty-seven years after the American Psychiatric Association, twenty-eight years after the Canadian Psychiatric Association and five years after China. China for crying out loud. They had promised to repeal the designation at an earlier date, twelve years ago. Yeah I know, human dignity is not big on the priority list

Next disturbing aspect, that there were actually doctors who billed the province for treating homosexuality as a disorder. Why are they allowed to do this? And that’s not even regarding the legal aspects of the province. How in the world do they stay licensed while being that unethical

How about the fact that these doctors are still going to be paid by the province? Really? I’m sorry but at this point you just need to tell these psychiatrists, “Tough luck, you no longer get to profit from a non-existent disorder.”

201o! Twenty-fricken-ten!

*Which I’m sure will be listed as disorders as soon as they find a pill for them.