The GOP's War on Reproductive Rights

This entire bogus brouhaha about the White House and Contraception is a scam.

A S-C-A-M

By the right –wing, who has absolutely nothing. They see that the economy is improving. They see that the country, despite all their attempts at sabotaging this country, is finally moving in the right direction. They have a President who has taken foreign policy away from them as an issue. They have, as their ‘inevitable’ nominee, a clown who has taken both sides on every issue known to man. They have a ‘ base’ that despises their so-called ‘inevitable’ nominee, and express it at every turn. It is the ‘base’ that turns out, and in nominating Willard Romney, they are afraid that he will not ‘excite’ them. So, in order to ‘excite’ the base, they create this phony ‘ war on religion’ supposedly by the President.

The President’s ruling, with regards to birth control is quite simple: if you are an employer with so many employees, you must provide, as part of an overall women’s basic health package, free birth control. That’s it. It doesn’t go after religious institutions. The church can be against birth control all it wants; the federal government is not saying that it can’t. What the government IS saying is…

IF you are a religious entity, and you get into the employment business, guess what? You have to treat your employees the same as any other employer without religious affiliation.

That’s it.

IF the church doesn’t want to pay for birth control, then guess what, the church needs to get out of the business of being an employer. Nobody is forcing the church to be an employer. To provide insurance. Nobody. So, get out of those businesses, and you won’t have to be’ subject’ to following the laws like everyone else.

As for this ‘ conscience’ nonsense that they try to bring up, I feel about it, the same way I feel whenever I read a story about a pharmacist, who has found religion, and refuses to fill a prescription – almost always BIRTH CONTROL-…

because it goes against their ‘conscience’. I don’t give a rat’s ass about your’ conscience’; if the prescription is for a LEGAL DRUG DISPENSED BY A PHARMACY

Do your job. Or, get another one.

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Birth Control For Middle Schoolers?

I was a little shocked by a recent report out of Portland Maine, regarding school children and birth control. The report dealt NOT with sex education for Middle Schoolers.... But dealt with issuing Birth Control to them. When I first heard the news flash on the radio, I thought that it must have been a mistake. But the report was indeed accurate. The school district in Portland Maine voted to allow schools to dispense birth control to kids as young as 10 and 11 years old.

What is this World coming to? I know the answer...but I guess I am just bothered by how fast things seem to be going down the tubes. When I was in Middle School in the mid 80's (living in Kansas at the time).... the closest that we ever got to the subject of birth control was a stupid sex education video. And even then, the video was pretty tame and censored compared to today's standards. It didn't get into any serious detail. That presentation came later on in High School, during health class and special assemblies.... presumably when students were old enough to process and handle the information. But that is just sex education... there was not even a thought of issuing birth control to students, not even when I was an upper classman in High School.

So now they are issuing birth control to babies? What message does this send to these young students? It almost seems like a green light to me. And according to the New York Times, these birth control drugs can be issued without Parental consent.

Is this an appropriate age to issue birth control to kids? Keep in mind, this age group hasn't even had proper sex education yet... it's like putting a loaded gun in the hands of someone who isn't trained to handle it... or providing a car to someone who hasn't learned to drive yet....and is too young to have a license.

I'm usually fairly reasonable...and Progressive on many issues... although I do have Conservative moments (perhaps this is one of them). I just think this is one of those times when the government (in this case...a public school system) has stepped out of bounds and into sacred parental territory as it relates to family planning, sex ed, birth control, morals/values, Faith, etc. This is a matter for Parents to handle (at this particular age).

Any thoughts?

Also See Report & Commentary from NPR.

Audio Report Here