The Conservative War On Women

God, I'm like a spooge Hitler with my vasectomy and all my poor sperm just dying away inside of me.

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Oso wrote:

The same article references an Oklahoma rider that was added and later withdrawn:

Oklahoma wrote:

"any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman's vagina shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child."

Now, is that one infraction per sperm, or what?

"On the one million, seven hundred thirty thousand, four hundred and thirty-second charge, how does the jury find?"

H.P. Lovesauce wrote:

"On the one million, seven hundred thirty thousand, four hundred and thirty-second charge, how does the jury find?"

Not guilty. X chromosome, Y'Honor. She had it coming.

Oso wrote:
Funkenpants wrote:

Imagine what a republican man would say if the government required you to get a deep and extensive rectal probe in order to buy a handgun.

I can imagine two things: A: "Where do I sign up?!" and B: "Don't tell my wife."

Ted Haggard / Larry Craig jokes aside, I'm getting a good chuckle about some of the legislation that is being proposed to highlight how ridiculous some of the anti-birth control legislation is:

Georgia Legislation wrote:

HB 1116, which would prevent men from vasectomies unless needed to avert serious injury or death. The bill reads: "It is patently unfair that men avoid the rewards of unwanted fatherhood by presuming that their judgment over such matters is more valid than the judgment of the General Assembly. ... It is the purpose of the General Assembly to assert an invasive state interest in the reproductive habits of men in this state and substitute the will of the government over the will of adult men."

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/21...

The same article references an Oklahoma rider that was added and later withdrawn:

Oklahoma wrote:

"any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman's vagina shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child."

Which of the hypocritical Repubicants wrote that particular piece of homophobia?

Is this reverse Poe's Law?

When one sperm dies it is a tragedy; when millions die, it is a statistic.

4xis.black wrote:

When one sperm dies it is a tragedy; when millions die, you close your Chrome incognito window.

FTFY

iaintgotnopants wrote:

What a f*cking idiot.

It was funny until I realized it wasn't an Onion piece.

From the letter he wrote to lawmakers:

After talking to some well-informed constituents, I did a small amount of web-based research, and what I found is disturbing. The Girl Scouts of America and their worldwide partner, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), have entered into a close strategic affiliation with Planned Parenthood. You will not find evidence of this on the GSA/WAGGGS website—in fact, the websites of these two organizations explicitly deny funding Planned Parenthood.

Nonetheless, abundant evidence proves that the agenda of Planned Parenthood includes sexualizing young girls through the Girl Scouts, which is quickly becoming a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood.

His small amount of web-based research? Looking at articles on World Net Daily.

OG_slinger wrote:

From the letter he wrote to lawmakers:

After talking to some well-informed constituents, I did a small amount of web-based research, and what I found is disturbing. The Girl Scouts of America and their worldwide partner, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), have entered into a close strategic affiliation with Planned Parenthood. You will not find evidence of this on the GSA/WAGGGS website—in fact, the websites of these two organizations explicitly deny funding Planned Parenthood.

Nonetheless, abundant evidence proves that the agenda of Planned Parenthood includes sexualizing young girls through the Girl Scouts, which is quickly becoming a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood.

His small amount of web-based research? Looking at articles on World Net Daily.

In other words, he's working hard to be this year's recipient of the Dr. Bill Tam Legacy award.

Nonetheless, abundant evidence proves that the agenda of Planned Parenthood includes sexualizing young girls through the Girl Scouts,

His basic argument: "Ignore that evidence, my hearsay is better!"

"The tactical arm of Planned Parenthood" puts to minds commando squads of heavily armed hipster girls initiating lighting quick precision condom strikes. Essentially, a world I'd much rather live in.

It's great when people learn for the first time that if you Google an exact phrase you want to hear, someone else has already stated it in an article. It's the more bland but probably more socially destructive twin of Rule 34.

From OG's link

The pamphlet instructs young girls not to think of sex as "just about vaginal or anal intercourse." "There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore and be yourself!"

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SpacePPoliceman wrote:

"The tactical arm of Planned Parenthood" puts to minds commando squads of heavily armed hipster girls initiating lighting quick precision condom strikes. Essentially, a world I'd much rather live in.

I stumbled over the tripwire of a Girl Scout claymore recently; it popped up and started flinging Thin Mints everywhere, right at mouth level. I gained four pounds . . . it was just HORRIBLE.

Counterpoint:

Last week: "who is Bob Morris? Where is Indiana?"

Today: "oh. Yeah, Bob f*cking Morris. In indiana."

in my daycare days, we would tell kids like that that words can hurt, and we'd make little Bobby have a timeout.

$4.50 for "luxury" goods like a box of cookies? Clearly the result of socialism at work!

krev82 wrote:

From OG's link

The pamphlet instructs young girls not to think of sex as "just about vaginal or anal intercourse." "There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore and be yourself!"

Well, to be fair, I could understand why some would be concerned over an instruction like that. It might depend a little on the age group being targeted by the program - the letter doesn't specify - but I'm sure that even some parents who are ok with sex ed in schools would still not be happy with this. By telling girls to have fun and explore, with no boundaries implied, it passes beyond simple information into moralistic instruction, which is traditionally a parental area. I don't think some parents would appreciate having their children told it's ok to experiment with casual sex.

Edit - Mind you, I don't think a simple pamphlet would single-handedly be capable of convincing someone to let loose if their parents had brought them up to believe differently. I'm just saying that I can see why some would bristle at a line like that.

Thank you for that alternate point of view Crispus, good points all.

In the meantime I tracked down what seems to be the actual pamphlet ;

Healthy, Happy and Hot is a guide for young people living with HIV to help them understand their sexual rights, and live healthy, fun, happy
and sexually fulfilling lives. The guide aims to give information on how young people living with HIV can increase sexual pleasure, take care of their health, practice safer sex, have children, develop strong intimate relationships and access support.

Full 1.31 MB pdf available here.

I'm just waiting for the primary season to be over and politicians on the right are no longer forced to pander to the most extreme voices in the party.

I'm not a conservative, but I don't pretend that the most insane fringe, as in the ones who think the freaking girl scouts are agent provocateurs for the red menace, are the party rank and file. What we are seeing right now is conservatives battling against each other for the conservative voter base. The swing votes are in the crazy fringe. Once the national candidates have been selected, then the conservatives will be battling progressives for the moderate swing votes and they'll try to hide their crazy fringe and appear reasonable.

Very occasionally, you'll see one of them slip and say something reasonable, instead of pandering to the fringe. Recently Romney admitted that if we cut our way to a balanced budget, we will kill off economic growth He said: If you just cut, if all you’re thinking about doing is cutting spending, as you cut spending you’ll slow down the economy. So you have to, at the same time, create pro-growth tax policies.”. Idealogues on the right blasted him for deviating from the "cuts cure everything" party line. His mistake was in the timing. AFTER the primaries he'll need to prove he's a reasonable person who can function in the "reality-based world". Until then, he and everyone else trying to make it through the conservative primaries, is forced to pander to the insane branch of the party.

And Fort Wayne wonders why it has a brain drain issue.

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clover wrote:

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It's more likely than you think.

Hmm, she might have caught the annoying Gingr-itch. The symptoms include saggy, flaky skin, loss of hair pigment and egregious infidelity.

Texas cuts its own state run women's services because they passed a law to avoid giving money to Planned Parenthood:
http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...

NathanialG wrote:

Texas cuts its own state run women's services because they passed a law to avoid giving money to Planned Parenthood:
http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...

I really need to win the lottery or otherwise get rich, so I can pull a Maddox-style "For every dollar you cut from Planned Parenthood, I'm going to donate three."

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:
NathanialG wrote:

Texas cuts its own state run women's services because they passed a law to avoid giving money to Planned Parenthood:
http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...

I really need to win the lottery or otherwise get rich, so I can pull a Maddox-style "For every dollar you cut from Planned Parenthood, I'm going to donate three."

I was wondering if part of their intent with this law was to intentionally remove the funding for their own programs. Is that too Machiavellian?

Hey, anyone that would doom their own daughter to death in screaming agony, at age 40, so that they didn't "send the wrong message" at age 16, would do just about f*cking anything.