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Gawd wants us to have lots of kids. More stupidity from the theocratic
Right.

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Published on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 by The Baltimore Sun

The Quiet Campaign Against Birth Control

by Cristina Page

At National Right to Lifeıs conference this year, Mitt Romney set out to
convince anti-abortion leaders he was their candidate. At the podium, he
rattled off his qualifications. To a laymanıs ears, it sounded pretty
standard for abortion politics. He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. He
supports teaching only abstinence to teens.

Birth control pills may be what is causing a lot of male fish to develop
eggs. Women take the hormones and pee in the toilets which get flushed and
carry the hormones into the rivers and streams. then that same water is
treated and recycled back to have people drinking it, and no one knows if
that stuff is removed by the filters. So birth control pills should be
replaced by abortion as an environmentally friendly way of population
control.

On Aug 22, 1:56 am, johac <jhachm...@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Gawd wants us to have lots of kids. More stupidity from the theocratic
Right.

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Published on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 by The Baltimore Sun

The Quiet Campaign Against Birth Control

by Cristina Page

At National Right to Lifeıs conference this year, Mitt Romney set out to
convince anti-abortion leaders he was their candidate. At the podium, he
rattled off his qualifications. To a laymanıs ears, it sounded pretty
standard for abortion politics. He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. He
supports teaching only abstinence to teens.

But for those trained to hear the subtleties, Mr. Romney was
acknowledging something more. He implied an opposition to the birth
control pill and a willingness to join in their efforts to scale back
access to contraception. There are code phrases to listen for - and for
those keeping score, Mr. Romney nailed each one.

One code phrase is: ³I fought to define life as beginning at conception
rather than at the time of implantation.² The American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists defines pregnancy as starting at
implantation, the first moment a pregnancy can be known. Anti-abortion
advocates want pregnancy to start at the unknown moment sperm and egg
meet: fertilization. Theyıd also like you to believe, despite evidence
to the contrary, that the birth control pill prevents that fertilized
egg from implanting in the womb.

Mr. Romneyıs code, deciphered, meant, ³I, like you, hope to reclassify
the most commonly used forms of contraceptives as abortions.² In fact,
he told the crowd, he already had some practice redefining
contraception: ³I vetoed a so-called emergency contraception bill that
gave young girls abortive drugs without prescription or parental
consent.²

No matter that emergency contraception has the same mode of action as
the birth control pill and every other hormonal method of birth control.
To the anti-abortion movement, contraception is the ultimate corruptor.
And so this year, the unspoken rule for candidates seeking the support
of anti-abortion groups is that they must offer proof theyıre
anti-contraception too.

Unannounced candidate and former Sen. Fred Thompson at first denied he
had been a lobbyist for the contraception advocacy group the National
Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. Until billing
records materialized proving he worked for the group, he somehow had ³no
recollection of it.²

Presidential hopeful Sen. Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, beefed up
his anti-contraception resume by co-sponsoring a bill to de-fund the
nationıs largest contraception provider, Planned Parenthood, by
excluding it from Title X family planning for the poor. Arizona
Republican Sen. John McCainıs campaign officials boast he has
³consistently voted against taxpayer-funded contraception programs.² And
Mr. McCain reports that his adviser on sexual-health matters is Sen. Tom
Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, who leads campaigns claiming condoms are
unsafe and opposing emergency contraception.

Another presidential candidate, Rep. Tom Tancredo, like Mr. Romney, has
ventured far into the ³contraception-is-abortion² territory. According
to Mr. Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, emergency contraception
³cheapens human life and simply uses a womanıs body to dispose of the
child instead of a doctor.² By the same logic, so do the birth control
pill, the contraceptive patch, the IUD, the NuvaRing, and the
Depo-Provera shot - which, itıs worth noting, together account for 40
percent of the birth control American women use.

The American public is unaware of the new wave of anti-contraception
activism by opponents of abortion, which makes it much easier for
politicians to appease the anti-contraception base. Take, for example,
President Bush. While he has delivered some big anti-abortion victories
for the religious right in the last seven years (Supreme Court Justices
John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr., and the so-called
partial-birth abortion ban), anti-contraception work has taken up more
of his energy. He attempted to strip contraceptive coverage for federal
employees; appointed anti-birth control leader David Hager to the FDA
panel that approves and expands access to contraceptive methods; chose
another contraception opponent to oversee the nationıs contraceptive
program for the poor; defunded international family-planning programs,
and invested unprecedented sums into sex-ed programs that prohibit
mention of contraception.

For now, the candidates vying for the Right to Life endorsement are
doing their best to avoid directly answering mainstream votersı simple
questions on the subject, such as, ³Do you support couples having access
to safe and effective birth control options, including emergency
contraception?² Considering that even 80 percent of self-described
³pro-life² voters and a majority of Republican voters strongly support
contraception, itıs no wonder why.

There's probably people who believe that using condoms is no different
from abortion.

There's probably people who believe that using condoms is no different
from abortion.

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:56:14 -0700, johac <jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

Gawd wants us to have lots of kids. More stupidity from the theocratic
Right.

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<SNIP article>

They are running out of kids to send to those Jesus camps. They tried
kennels
when they learned that the trend is for having a dog over kids but the dogs
are
too smart to fall for that stuff. :-)

Ben

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:56:14 -0700, johac <jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

Gawd wants us to have lots of kids. More stupidity from the theocratic
Right.

---

Published on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 by The Baltimore Sun

The Quiet Campaign Against Birth Control

by Cristina Page

At National Right to Lifeıs conference this year, Mitt Romney set out to
convince anti-abortion leaders he was their candidate. At the podium, he
rattled off his qualifications. To a laymanıs ears, it sounded pretty
standard for abortion politics. He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. He
supports teaching only abstinence to teens.

But for those trained to hear the subtleties, Mr. Romney was
acknowledging something more. He implied an opposition to the birth
control pill and a willingness to join in their efforts to scale back
access to contraception. There are code phrases to listen for - and for
those keeping score, Mr. Romney nailed each one.

One code phrase is: ³I fought to define life as beginning at conception
rather than at the time of implantation.² The American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists defines pregnancy as starting at
implantation, the first moment a pregnancy can be known. Anti-abortion
advocates want pregnancy to start at the unknown moment sperm and egg
meet: fertilization. Theyıd also like you to believe, despite evidence
to the contrary, that the birth control pill prevents that fertilized
egg from implanting in the womb.

Mr. Romneyıs code, deciphered, meant, ³I, like you, hope to reclassify
the most commonly used forms of contraceptives as abortions.² In fact,
he told the crowd, he already had some practice redefining
contraception: ³I vetoed a so-called emergency contraception bill that
gave young girls abortive drugs without prescription or parental
consent.²

No matter that emergency contraception has the same mode of action as
the birth control pill and every other hormonal method of birth control.
To the anti-abortion movement, contraception is the ultimate corruptor.
And so this year, the unspoken rule for candidates seeking the support
of anti-abortion groups is that they must offer proof theyıre
anti-contraception too.

Unannounced candidate and former Sen. Fred Thompson at first denied he
had been a lobbyist for the contraception advocacy group the National
Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. Until billing
records materialized proving he worked for the group, he somehow had ³no
recollection of it.²

Presidential hopeful Sen. Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, beefed up
his anti-contraception resume by co-sponsoring a bill to de-fund the
nationıs largest contraception provider, Planned Parenthood, by
excluding it from Title X family planning for the poor. Arizona
Republican Sen. John McCainıs campaign officials boast he has
³consistently voted against taxpayer-funded contraception programs.² And
Mr. McCain reports that his adviser on sexual-health matters is Sen. Tom
Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, who leads campaigns claiming condoms are
unsafe and opposing emergency contraception.

Another presidential candidate, Rep. Tom Tancredo, like Mr. Romney, has
ventured far into the ³contraception-is-abortion² territory. According
to Mr. Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, emergency contraception
³cheapens human life and simply uses a womanıs body to dispose of the
child instead of a doctor.² By the same logic, so do the birth control
pill, the contraceptive patch, the IUD, the NuvaRing, and the
Depo-Provera shot - which, itıs worth noting, together account for 40
percent of the birth control American women use.

The American public is unaware of the new wave of anti-contraception
activism by opponents of abortion, which makes it much easier for
politicians to appease the anti-contraception base. Take, for example,
President Bush. While he has delivered some big anti-abortion victories
for the religious right in the last seven years (Supreme Court Justices
John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr., and the so-called
partial-birth abortion ban), anti-contraception work has taken up more
of his energy. He attempted to strip contraceptive coverage for federal
employees; appointed anti-birth control leader David Hager to the FDA
panel that approves and expands access to contraceptive methods; chose
another contraception opponent to oversee the nationıs contraceptive
program for the poor; defunded international family-planning programs,
and invested unprecedented sums into sex-ed programs that prohibit
mention of contraception.

For now, the candidates vying for the Right to Life endorsement are
doing their best to avoid directly answering mainstream votersı simple
questions on the subject, such as, ³Do you support couples having access
to safe and effective birth control options, including emergency
contraception?² Considering that even 80 percent of self-described
³pro-life² voters and a majority of Republican voters strongly support
contraception, itıs no wonder why.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/21/3302/

Totally unreal. They're probably already dreaming up laws to protect pregnant
petri dishes.

Ben

johac wrote:

For now, the candidates vying for the Right to Life endorsement are
doing their best to avoid directly answering mainstream votersı simple
questions on the subject, such as, ³Do you support couples having
access to safe and effective birth control options, including
emergency contraception?² Considering that even 80 percent of
self-described ³pro-life² voters and a majority of Republican voters
strongly support contraception, itıs no wonder why.

Fortunately, none of the Republican clowns are electable. Romney is the
closest they have to a viable candidate at this point. The problem with him
(or is it an advantage) is that he's been on both sides of conservative hot
button issues. Nonetheless, I can't imagine God-fearing Southern Baptists
voting for a cultist.

johac wrote:

For now, the candidates vying for the Right to Life endorsement are
doing their best to avoid directly answering mainstream votersı simple
questions on the subject, such as, ³Do you support couples having
access to safe and effective birth control options, including
emergency contraception?² Considering that even 80 percent of
self-described ³pro-life² voters and a majority of Republican voters
strongly support contraception, itıs no wonder why.

Fortunately, none of the Republican clowns are electable. Romney is the
closest they have to a viable candidate at this point. The problem with him
(or is it an advantage) is that he's been on both sides of conservative hot
button issues. Nonetheless, I can't imagine God-fearing Southern Baptists
voting for a cultist.