"Anti-Choice Activists Protest on 47th Anniversary of Legalized Contraception" October 20, 2012 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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The scheduling of the protests alone should have tipped off reporters to the fact that this is about more than insurance coverage; the protests aligned with the anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, which is the 1965 Supreme Court decision where the court ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood's right to offer contraceptive services to married women, which had the effect of invalidating any bans on contraception sales nationwide.
I'd imagine some folks would like to pretend that's a coincidence, but that would require a massive leap of faith to believe that anti-choice activists somehow forgot an anniversary that pro-choice organizations celebrate every year. These protests are an extension of what's been a multi-year protest project from the American Life League, which holds annual anti-Griswold protests under the banner The Pill Kills. Additionally, the protests featured speakers who are unafraid to talk about the "tragedy" of women being able to choose nonprocreative sex. Sarah Posner at Salon interviewed one of the major speakers at the Capitol Hill protest, David Bereit, and while he was cagey with the liberal press about his views on legalized contraception, she found that it didn't take much digging to discover he's against it. In 2005, he directly stated that he felt Griswold created "a tragic moral breakdown in our culture," echoing common Catholic dogma about how sex should always be about procreation, even though Bereit himself isn't Catholic. He and many other speakers at the rally claimed that emergency contraception is abortion, despite the definitive disproof offered recently in the New York Times, which I argued would not be enough to shame anti-choice activists into scientific accuracy. You know, because they don't really like contraception.
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If I was a young woman right now, I'd so be stocking up on condoms and anything else I could get my hands on, or getting sterilized before it's outlawed. These fuckers are gonna do everything they can to drag women back into the kitchen barefoot and keep them pregnant. It is unbelievable. If you had told me even five years ago that this kind of thing would be happening I would have said you were full of shit. This is mind-boggling. We are regressing back to the dark ages.
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If they are so afraid of stuff inducing abortions, why don't they offer up the idea of reduced and super-easy-to-get sterilizations instead? No sperm ever meets an egg, thus no wringing of hands. And who cares if women have non-procreative sex? Do they get a stick of their butt whenever an infertile women sleeps with her husband? She isn't having 'procreative' sex.Quote
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The scheduling of the protests alone should have tipped off reporters to the fact that this is about more than insurance coverage; the protests aligned with the anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, which is the 1965 Supreme Court decision where the court ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood's right to offer contraceptive services to married women, which had the effect of invalidating any bans on contraception sales nationwide.
I'd imagine some folks would like to pretend that's a coincidence, but that would require a massive leap of faith to believe that anti-choice activists somehow forgot an anniversary that pro-choice organizations celebrate every year. These protests are an extension of what's been a multi-year protest project from the American Life League, which holds annual anti-Griswold protests under the banner The Pill Kills. Additionally, the protests featured speakers who are unafraid to talk about the "tragedy" of women being able to choose nonprocreative sex. Sarah Posner at Salon interviewed one of the major speakers at the Capitol Hill protest, David Bereit, and while he was cagey with the liberal press about his views on legalized contraception, she found that it didn't take much digging to discover he's against it. In 2005, he directly stated that he felt Griswold created "a tragic moral breakdown in our culture," echoing common Catholic dogma about how sex should always be about procreation, even though Bereit himself isn't Catholic. He and many other speakers at the rally claimed that emergency contraception is abortion, despite the definitive disproof offered recently in the New York Times, which I argued would not be enough to shame anti-choice activists into scientific accuracy. You know, because they don't really like contraception.
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(Note, this is from June. I posted it because it matters to us that many anti-abortion activists are also anti-contraception, especially with recent statements that have been made about abortion.)
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jmc
Do you still get a period if you get Essure? I've been on Depo for a long time and I haven't had a period in YEARS!!!! This is the best thing EVER!!! I do want to get sterilized but I'm afraid to go back to having periods again.....
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I asked for ablation along with my filshie clips and the doctor looked me square in the eye and said "no".. Good luck!
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Sorceress
If I was a young woman right now, I'd so be stocking up on condoms and anything else I could get my hands on, or getting sterilized before it's outlawed.
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If Romney wins then these fuckers will have a president who will sign whatever they want to slip across his desk.
Maybe I should get a vascectomy. Just in case they pass a law requiring fertile people to divorce their sterilized spouses (spice?) and marry fertile things and make babies. I wouldn't put it passed them to try.
The reasons for this are obvious: 1) they hate sex for pleasure out of some Puritanical, Victorian mindset and 2) they want to increase the white birth rate at any cost.
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1) they hate sex for pleasure out of some Puritanical, Victorian mindset and 2) they want to increase the white birth rate at any cost.
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nathanomir
If Romney wins then these fuckers will have a president who will sign whatever they want to slip across his desk.
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If Romney wins then these fuckers will have a president who will sign whatever they want to slip across his desk.
I'm sorry but you can't possibly be serious. Wrongney is a definite liberal who's only being run becaue Palin ran away, Sanitorum turned into a fundie fanatic and Ron Paul is too old and can't overcome the Islamophobiac element of Rightwingistan.
I lurk and comment on rightie sites, folks, people are specifically telling the Socons in general and the ant-abortion crowd in particular to STFU because everything is about the economy this time around.
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