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Anti-Choice Roundup

Feb 02, 2011 07:10

I've been ignoring the individual news stories, but there's been such a perfect storm of anti-choice, anti-woman actions building that I thought it was time I mentioned them in passing. The actual legislative outcome of most of this is as yet unknown ( Read more... )

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redpanda13 February 2 2011, 16:48:49 UTC

Last I heard, Holy Cross did get the hospital contract from Montgomery County, but the Adventists are protesting or appealing or whatever they can do, at least partly on grounds of the Catholics providing inadequate care for women.

I'm sending you an article from the WashPost on Jan 19 about Catholic hospitals and women's health care:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/19/AR2011011907539.html

Someone commented that, if any tax money goes to these hospitals, they should be required to follow medical procedures that are best for the patients and not religious dogma. Our tax money is subsidizing the buggers' churches anyhow.... (All of them, not just the RC.)

redpanda13 February 2 2011, 17:22:36 UTC

Today's Far Left Side comic ( http://farleftside.com/ ):

"I'm a career business woman. I was drugged and raped."
"I'm a college student. I was violently date-raped."
"I'm thirteen. I was raped by my uncle."
"I'm Republican congressman Chris Smith, and I've decided that no one gets to use the word 'rape' unless I say they can."

neadods February 2 2011, 23:03:00 UTC

That just about sums it up!

swallowedbysky February 2 2011, 21:04:03 UTC

Re: H.R.3. There's a piece on Time's Swampland worth reading about the non-problem of women falsely claiming to have been raped in order to obtain a medicaid-funded abortion.

The gist of it? "I couldn't find numbers more recent than 2001, but these shocked me. In that year, the total number of abortions covered by Medicaid was 56. That's all abortions for cases in which the mother's life was in danger, the pregnancy was a result of incest, or in the case of rape."

neadods February 2 2011, 23:02:34 UTC

Sounds about right. The trumpeting alarm that "your tax dollars are being used for abortion" is, to be blunt, a false alarm.

flaviarassen February 3 2011, 06:53:36 UTC

The hypocrisy of the Right was clear when they "made exceptions for rape & incest", because, of course, if the TRUE goal was to "save an innocent life", how could the method of conception have any bearing on it? But now, when their true motives (SUPPRESSION OF WOMEN) are clear to all but the dumbest &/or most dishonest, NO ONE IS SAYING ANYTHING!

(& if I ever meet Whoopi Goldberg, she'd better have thick earplugs!)

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neadods February 4 2011, 00:52:09 UTC

It wasn't an easy call -- it was the only call.

And that people - particularly Bishop BunchedPanties - refuse to see that makes me a bit crazy.

Considering the Catholic response to family planning, rape, and abortion (there were doctors and a woman in Brazil excommunicated for aborting twins carried by a raped eight year old girl) I find it hard to consider being cut loose as being punished as much as being liberated to do their job without the ilk of BunchedPanties breathing down their necks.