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#1339047 - 04/16/12 06:55 PM
Re: Santorum's Amerika
[Re: Chicago Jesus]
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Ayuveda
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Registered: 04/05/10
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Loc: Imagine
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The 1st thing I'd do though, is end the abstainence only advice, take human nature and hormonal drive into account, and push birth control, instead. The perfect is the enemy of the good, and if we want fewer abortions, that would be a good way to have fewer of them.
Yup.  Ahahahahahahaha...what war?
This war.
Conservatives' Losing Bet on Birth Control: History Suggests They Might've Woken a Sleeping Giant
The historical record suggests we may be witnessing a re-awakening of the reproductive rights movement.
RH Reality Check / By Patti Miller
April 15, 2012
Feminist Studio Workshop in 1973, as seen in !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION, a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson. A Zeitgeist Film release. Photo courtesy of Sheila Levrant de Bretteville Archives
Republican strategists and political prognosticators are quick to assure us that Romney’s gender gap—which at 19 points is now more like a gender chasm—will evaporate as general election campaigning gears up and the attention of voters returns to bread-and-butter issues like the economy. Even Romney seems to think it’s just a blip—assuring reporters that women are talking about “the debt that we're leaving the next generation” and “the failure of this economy to put people back to work,” not access to reproductive health care.
The Republicans seem to think they can erase the past four months and their “war on women,” but if history is any guide, this is wishful thinking. In fact, the historical record suggests we may be witnessing a re-awakening of the reproductive rights movement, especially among groups where concern about access to contraception and abortion has languished: young women and independent women. There is an eerie parallel between the awakening that is currently happening and the beginning of the reproductive rights revolution that resulted in the legalization of abortion in the early 1970s.
It all comes back to a scene that was unimaginably galling to women: a group of men sitting solemnly before microphones at a committee table testifying about whether women should have access to reproductive health care that they could never need. This may sound like the already infamous Issa congressional hearing that was ostensibly about “religious freedom,” but it wasn’t. This hearing happened more than 40 years ago and helped to light a revolution. (excerpt)
Article here:
http://www.alternet.org/story/154988/con...sleeping_giant/
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