TANTAROS: I mean look, if the president is going to talk about his daughters, typically I would not talk about the daughters, unless, of course, they go to the Bahamas on spring break and we have to pay for it and I think it’s wrong, which I do. But they’re not grown women. So I’m just wondering, at 15 years old, is the Obama daughter, Malia, going to go on birth control? Are they gonna put her on birth control? Because he’s very concerned with the contraceptives and pharmaceuticals that are going in the mouths of everybody else’s 15-year old daughter.
But it’s definitely collectivism, right? “It takes a village.” Do you hear it, everybody? “It takes a village to raise your kids.” President Obama is now the parent-in-chief. Kathleen Sebelius is raising your kids. Joe Biden is raising your kids. Oh not even, it doesn’t stop there. It’s not kids. They consider 15-year olds to be women. They want to tell grown women what to do. They know how grown women feel. They have no idea how women feel. They should stop talking about it, because they have no clue.
if you’re with me and we see Andrea Tantaros, make sure it’s worth my trouble to spit or pour a beverage on her, please.
On February 1, the Obama administration announced they will hold the line on making no-cost birth control available to women under the Affordable Care Act, despite a small but vocal opposition. The president is making good on his promise to the 99 percent of sexually active American women who have used birth control at some point in their life.
Now, the fight starts anew. The administration has 60 days to collect public comments on the rule. We know what our opponents are capable of, and we cannot let them continue to stand between a woman and her body, her decisions, and her future. This is about whether our bosses decide if we get access to birth control, or if we do.
This is it. Fill out this form to add your name in support of the administration’s decision about birth control. Sign it now. Sign it for yourself, your daughters, and granddaughters. Sign it because independence, equality, and the right to make our own health care decisions are worth fighting for.
That is a Fair Point About the Statistics
I was messing around, not working really hard to make and solid point then mylovetoborrow said:
That teen pregnancy rate is based on BIRTHS, not diagnoses of pregnancy. So religious states = fewer abortions. Which is logical and says nothing about the actual rate of teen pregnancy.
OK, since you’re a med student, maybe that makes you better with statistics than me, but wouldn’t an overlay of the laws governing a minor’s access to abortion services and perhaps contraception give more meaning to the graphic?
Lay this down on people who say that they are Pro-Life
And also to be responsible for all of the babies born who aren’t wanted. If they are genuinely living out their faith, there would be no kids left in the foster system.
Photos from Planned Parenthood’s rally for choice at Balboa Park with Sandra Fluke as the headline speaker.
US Senate candidate Linda McMahon paints herself as a moderate – but yesterday she said hospitals should be able to deny rape victims emergency contraception, forcing women to shop around for emergency room care. That’s not moderate, that’s cruel.
Slightly more than one in five U.S. pregnancies ends in abortion, and abortion is one of the most common surgical procedures experienced by U.S. women
If reducing unwanted pregnancy was a goal of the anti-choice religious movement, they would get out of the way and allow Pro-Choice organizations to do their jobs. Instead, resources are wasted that ought to be used to care for the already-born. Funds would be available to educate every gender regarding the social implications of forced birth or abortion; teaching the responsibility of sex, the circumstances of pregnancy, the complexity of parenting —especially in poverty, and putting an end to violence against women and children. Everyone must share in these responsibilities —not only women.
…if Pro-Choice organizations did not have to spend funding to defend a woman’s legal right to access birth control and safe abortion, funds could be used for the research and development of birth control for men….
Oklahoma Doctor Refuses To Provide Rape Victim With Emergency Contraception
ThinkProgress reports: “An Oklahoma emergency room doctor refused to provide emergency contraception to a 24-year-old female rape victim because the medication violated the health provider’s personal beliefs… ‘I will not give you emergency contraceptives because it goes against my believes,’ the doctor allegedly told the rape victim and her mother, Rhonda. ‘She knew my daughter had just been raped. Her attitude was so judgmental and I felt that she was just judging my daughter.’
Canadian Valley Hospital in Yukon, OK: Go on and fuck them up with crappy reviews on Google and Yelp.
Anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers are not always about a woman’s choices at all.
First off, you need to look at the link between adoption coercion and crisis pregnancy centers. Some, notice I said some not all, of them act also as adoption agencies and will convince a woman that she is a bad mother. That she cannot take care of her child adequately enough. Some of them, again not all of them, will then sell the baby to couples that are infertile for 30-40k. They will tell the pregnant woman about the emotional and physical side effects of abortion. However, they will not talk about the emotional and physical side effects of carrying to term and there are many. They also do not tell the woman about the emotional side effects of adoption. If they do at all, they will promise counseling that sometimes doesn’t come to pass. I will post it a 3rd time, I know that not all of them do this, but some of them do. Yes, I realize that not all of them do.
Secondly, some of them make themselves look like medical centers. Some of them conveniently are right next to the abortion clinic. Some of them have practically the same name. Is that not a bit misleading? Abby Johnson, who is now anti-abortion, tells CPCs in states with forced ultrasound laws to lie and say that their ultrasound machine will fulfill the legal requirements. This is not true, because the person performing the abortion has to provide the ultrasound and often read from a script written by anti-aborts. Therefore, some CPCs advertised free ultrasound to lure women into their center. In reality, the woman will just have to possibly go through harassment and 2 ultrasounds.
Is that right to you?
