Discussion for article #236891
What does this law do:
- makes sure the under age birth rate increases,
- encourages rape,
- encourages poverty,
- encourages poor education,
- makes sure the cycle repeats and repeats and repeatsâŚ
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¨(M)inors have to prove to a county judge that they are⌠mature enough to decide to terminate their pregnancy.¨
Too immature to have an abortion, but mature enough to have a baby? Doesnât the latter require way more maturity than the former? The mind reels at the duplicity of the anti-choice crowd.
Our abortion policy is a travesty. So is our âfamily planningâ system.
One needs to look no further than the situation with the girls freed from Boko Haram. Well over 200 of them were forcibly impregnated by their captors, in the time-honored tradition of âbreeding outâ the enemy, and are now being denied the full range of medical options, specifically abortion, because US law forbids it. Why does US law matter in Africa? Because we provide funding to the groups that provide care for women over there, and they are not allowed to even mention abortion or they will lose all US funds.
I guess the community should just consider themselves to be extra blessed?
It would be one thing if we actually believed that we wanted to prevent unintended pregnancies in the first place, but we donât. There is a very successful faction in this country that has taken over the levers of power, in many places, and with that power have decided to not only pass many, many new anti-choice laws, but to find ways to withdraw access to the very resources that would prevent those unwanted pregnancies, and/or punish women who do not want to be pregnant.
" an experimental program launched in the state in 2009 has resulted in a shocking 40 percent drop in the teen birth rate and a 35 percent drop in the teen abortion rate.
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Three years ago, a private donation was made to the Colorado Family Planning Initiative and earmarked to give IUDs and other long-acting reversible contraception (LARCs) to low-income women. The program was a smashing successânot only lowering unintended pregnancy rates, but also saving the state an estimated $5.85 for every dollar spent on the program.
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Naturally, Colorado anti-choicers are trying to kill it. (Note: And did.)
Yet, what we all know, but are not allowed to say, is that the real choice the âpro-lifeâ zealots is trying to abolish is not the choice of having an abortion, or even the choice of using birth control - it is the choice of women to have sex. Or not to have sex. Either one. And every now and then, one slips and lets this be known:
âAt the first house hearing on the measure, Rep. Kathleen Conti (R-Littleton) asked, âAre we communicating anything in that message [of providing contraception] that says âyou donât have to worry, youâre coveredâ? Does that allow a lot of young ladies to go out there and look for love in all the wrong places, as the old song goes?ââ
For a party that supposedly prides itself on âfamily valuesâ, how do they reconcile that, along with their calls for more responsible parenting from everyone who doesnât look like them, with their apparent philosophy that it is OK to pop out kids and leave them behind as if they are not actual human beings with needs that will last a lifetime? This is what they espouse to all of those women out there who say they are completely unprepared or incapable of providing resources for themselves, much less anyone else. Just leave them behind. Somewhere. Like a cat. Hopefully to be taken up by âChristian Warriorsâ who will then âtrain them upâ and âsend them back like an arrow to the heartâ of the culture they came from. Like St. Patrick.
Or, if they get to be too much just re-home them.
I am sick to death of these men, and yes it is overwhelmingly men who have decided that we, the weaker sex, need protection from our own libidos, and if they canât just tie our knees shut, dammit, they will make sure we pay the price for our lustful nature. Because, of course, men are pure, and it is only by the connivance of women that they have sex, anyway, and women should be punished for this. Begone, harlot!
I can see why they think that radical feminists are conspiring to remove them from the procreative process altogether. Under the circumstances, wouldnât any rational person? Until then, or until they decide they actually have a country to run, maybe our ârepresentativesâ can start actually representing the priorities of the communities they represent, education and personal economic issues, as always, rather than their own, narrow, bigoted, misanthropic agenda? Please?
