Remember when wingnuts used to say that conservatism is all about
facts and logic and liberalism is all about feelings and emotions?
Since the Bush administration's disastrous and factually barren
invasion of Iraq, times have changed.
It's very rare these days to see a conservative on TV who isn't making
some woo-woo appeal to raw emotion, logic be damned.
Take Leslie Unruh, for example.
Unruh is president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, an
organization which, one would assume, would want to reduce teen
pregnancy and abortion.
Apparently not.
Unruh appeared on Your World With Neal Cavuto last week to debate Mary
Alice Carr from NARAL on the topic of a new pill which allows women to
eliminate their menstrual period at will.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201269.html?hpid=topnews
Now, the logic- and reason-based argument, as put forth by Carr, is
that the pill is simply a form of contraception which has the added
benefit of relieving women from painful periods.
As another form of contraception, the pill will reduce unwanted
pregnancies, and therefore also reduce abortions.
But of course Unruh was having none of that.
First bear in mind that taking this pill is of course completely
voluntary and women can stop taking it at any time if they want to
have children - and now behold the powerful and oh-so-logical
arguments of the right-wing:
"This is a real war on women and war on children. It's a gift to be
able to have children and our fertility is precious to us, and we do
not need big pharma, National Abortion Rights Action League, who have
had a war on children and on babies to now come in with another drug
and to play God."
(snip)
"Let me tell you about way out there. Way out there is playing God.
Way out there is wanting us, women, who are feminine, and have
fertility, and it's something to celebrate, wanting us to be like men,
come on."
(snip)
"Planned Parenthood and NARAL have been out there trying to control
women for many years and fertility is a gift, it's a wonderful thing.
We need to celebrate our fertility. There are so many women that want
to have children and the last thing they need is big pharma,
pesticides being put into our bodies."
(snip)
"Attack on families and our children and women. I want more babies.
More babies. We love babies."
Think Progress has the video...
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/24/birth-control-unruh
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
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