Are They By Chance Related…?
There’s this:
Unintended Pregnancy Linked to State Funding Cuts
First-of-Its-Kind Study Cites Impact On Teenage Girls and Poor Women
By Ceci Connolly
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 1, 2006; Page A06
At a time when policymakers have made reducing unintended pregnancies a national priority, 33 states have made it more difficult or more expensive for poor women and teenagers to obtain contraceptives and related medical services, according to an analysis released yesterday by the nonpartisan Guttmacher Institute.
From 1994 to 2001, many states cut funds for family planning, enacted laws restricting access to birth control and placed tight controls on sex education, said the institute, a privately funded research group that focuses on sexual health and family issues.
And then there’s this :
THE FEDERAL DEFINITION OF ABSTINENCE-ONLY EDUCATION
According to federal law, an eligible abstinence education program is one that:
A) has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, physiological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity;
B) teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all school age children;
C) teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems;
D) teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity;
E) teaches that sexual activity outside of the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects;
F) teaches that bearing children out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child’s parents, and society;
G) teaches young people how to reject sexual advances and how alcohol and drug use increases vulnerability to sexual advances; and
H) teaches the importance of attaining self-sufficiency before engaging in sexual activity.
Source: U.S. Social Security Act, Sec. 510(b)(2).
Republican policy in one sentence? Sex is BAD – do it, little girly, and you suffer. And don’t forget, abstinence is only for girls. Republican men and boys can do what they want. Like this, ( via Shakespeare’s Sister) from Republican ursinophile Scooter Libby:
What the hell is wrong with conservatives?
posted by Shakespeare’s Sister Tuesday, November 01, 2005 permalink
With all the bloviating we hear about moral values from conservatives on a regular basis, you?d think that maybe they?d make some vague attempt to actually live up to their rhetoric, but time after time, it?s conservatives who prove to be the most corrupt, the most deviant, the most disturbed. Completely antithetical to the liberal theory that allowing people freedom of choice and expression will facilitate the development of healthy choices and self-expression, conservatives believe that repression is the key to goodness. But it doesn?t work. In fact, it has the opposite effect. Repression of normal desires can?t work forever, and once those normal desires have cooked in the dark recesses of the human mind for years on end, they bubble to the surface in a much uglier form. Sorry, but I?ll take a run-of-the-mill adulterous blowjob any day of the week over mule fucking, closet boytoy-trolling while advocating anti-gay rights measures, or online prostitution.
Anyway, The New Yorker introduces a 1996 novel called The Apprentice by none other than recently indicted scumbag, Scooter Libby, as another in a series of questionable novels by prominent conservatives, and notes:
Like his predecessors, Libby does not shy from the scatological. The narrative makes generous mention of lice, snot, drunkenness, bad breath, torture, urine, ?turds,? armpits, arm hair, neck hair, pubic hair, pus, boils, and blood (regular and menstrual). One passage goes,
?At length he walked around to the deer?s head and, reaching into his pants, struggled for a moment and then pulled out his penis. He began to piss in the snow just in front of the deer?s nostrils.?
Eugh. And it gets worse. The passage ?He asked if they should fuck the deer.? is quoted, to which, The New Yorker notes, ?The answer, reader, is yes.? And then there are the old stand-bys of conservative fiction writers:
Homoeroticism and incest also figure as themes. The main female character, Yukiko, draws hair on the ?mound? of a little girl. The brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter. Many things glisten (mouths, hair, evergreens), quiver (a ?pink underlip,? arm muscles, legs), and are sniffed (floorboards, sheets, fingers).
Perhaps the most disturbing, however, is this passage:
At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.
What kind of mind comes up with this shit, dreams up scenarios where children are raped by animals to train them in prostitution? Oh, right. A conservative one. One that has toiled under a lifetime of repression, and spent its time dreaming up legislation designed to control the sexual freedom of women and gays. It isn?t enough that men like Scooter Libby must repress their own sexualities; they have to oppress anyone who doesn?t succumb to exhortations to do the same.
Quite.
UPDATE: I thought it would difficult to be sicker than Libby, but Utah has just ruled that a father should be notified if his daughter seeks an abortion even if he’s the incestuous father. As Amanda puts it so elegantly and succinctly,
“By god, you rape your daughter and she better stay raped! What?s state power for if not to help patriarchal asswipes get their rocks off raping and forcing pregnancy on their very own teenage girls? What the hell do you think god made daughters for if not extra concubines to rape for yourself or sell to your friends?
She should’ve been abstinent, silly girl.
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