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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Straight Rights Update

Posted by DAN SAVAGE on March 16 at 9:52 AM

Via Americablog: Fresh from its victory over abortion rights in South Dakota, the GOP is nowattacking birth control in Missouri:

Yesterday, during debate on HB1010, the budget for the Departments of Health and Mental Health, House Republicans voted to ban county health clinics from providing family planning services.

So the GOP has finally come clean that they are opposed to contraception. They used to argue that they opposed family planning because Planned Parenthood played a role. But now the GOP has targeted family planning provided by the county health clinics. Their action is a direct attack on women’s access to traditional family planning services.

When are straight people going to wake up and smell the Holy Water? The right wing isn’t just waging war on the sexual freedom of gay people—they’re after your asses too, from banning the over-the-counter sale of Plan B to blocking the HPV vaccine (which will save thousands of women’s lives every year) to banning abortion services (not something that gay people have much use for) to criminalizing heavy petting in Kansas.

Don’t just sit there, breeders. Sooner or later you’re going to have to start fighting back.

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Wide awake and smelling it!

Posted by Longball | March 16, 2006 11:44 AM

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Missouri's pretty swing, isn't it? I think a hugely expensive statewide blanket attack by the GOP in Missouri on all forms of contraception would be plenty enough to turn the state blue. If we could get them to come out LOUD AND PROUD against condoms in drug stores, that ought to do the trick. The kookier the better. Giant posters showing suffocating sperms would be nice. Slogan: "even when you successfully impregnate your wife, MILLIONS OF POTENTIAL FUTURE LIVES ARE DESTROYED".

You know, the Catholic proscription on birth control is predicated on the notion that sperm cells alone are sufficient for life. When the prohibition was put in place, the idea that women had eggs was controversial; all that women bring to the process is a warm place to grow. I want to see nutjobs explaining that at press conferences today.

Posted by fnarf | March 16, 2006 12:39 PM

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Missouri, swing? Clearly you have never been there (and lucky for you).

I mean, St. Louis tends to go Democrat, but people are largely socially-conservative midwestern Democrats, which means that in terms of reproductive rights and sexual freedom, they're not all that liberal. Granted, in St. Louis the gay marriage amendment was narrowly defeated, but the fact that it passed in the state as a whole with 92% of the vote ought to give you a good idea of how most people think.

Makes me glad I don't live there anymore!

Posted by Megan | March 16, 2006 1:49 PM

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I was thinking of 2004, where Bush won, 53-46. That's not as close as I remembered. Remember, though, we're not talking about gay marriage, we're talking about LEGAL RUBBERS.

Posted by fnarf | March 16, 2006 2:01 PM

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Where is the lobby for deadbeat dad's in all of this? http://www.nationalcenterformen.org/page7.shtml

If men are able to formally reject parenthood and women do not have access to either birth control or abortion even in the case of incest and rape; where does it leave the children of this country? Especially when one considers the welfare 'reforms' over the past decade. Then we quit allowing sex education. Hmmm. This seems eerily similar to something I've heard of or seen before...oh, yeah, second and third world countries. Replete with starving children, AIDS, and other maladies while the wealthy live in compounds up on the hills.

Posted by dewsterling | March 16, 2006 2:30 PM

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Uh, Dan, that's not holy water.

Posted by fnarf | March 16, 2006 4:46 PM

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More kids, who become more adults, more consumption, more taxes for the Feds. I think that's why Republicans are anti abortion, anti birth control, even if it means many of these kids will live in poverty or as orphans. A controlled population eventually decreases.

Posted by Gomez | March 16, 2006 10:29 PM

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Uh, Dan, that's not holy water.

Obviously. Holy water doesn't smell.

Posted by Timothy Hulsey | March 17, 2006 6:06 AM

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Dan, as a breeder, what can I do about this?

Posted by joe | March 17, 2006 9:17 AM

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