Vaginal-Americans and the GOP
Righties just don't have a clue about, or respect for, the women of this country. Female sexuality is a threat, they feel compelled to control all those wanton uteruses (uteri?). A female presidential candidate really seems to intimidate the average knee-jerk wingnut, they don't even know what to call her.
The other day on Tucker Carlson's TV show he and Cliff May were discussing Sen. Hillary Clinton and May pinches off this beautiful bit of logic -- he wants to classify her as a Vaginal-American.
No really:
My brain explodes, and I can't wait to see what the late-night comedians do with that....
Then next, we find out that the Preznit has appointed Susan Orr, a staunchly anti-birth control extremist, as the new director of federal family planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Yep,the lady who hates birth control will be in charge of everybody's birth control. Not only that, but she thinks if you use a condom, you are part of the "culture of death."
Oh nooo .. just think of all those millions of poor little sperm screaming as they smother inside their rubbery grave!
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
(Monty Python)
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
(Monty Python)
"In a 2000 Weekly Standard article, Orr railed against requiring health insurance plans to cover contraceptives. “It’s not about choice,” said Orr. “It’s not about health care. It’s about making everyone collaborators with the culture of death.""
Talk about yer fetus fetishist ... it's plain crazy to consider using sensible and, um, legal methods of birth control to be tied into “The Culture of Death."
"Birth-Control Foe To Run Office on Family Planning
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The Bush administration again has appointed a chief of family planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who has been critical of contraception.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The Bush administration again has appointed a chief of family planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who has been critical of contraception.
Susan Orr, most recently an associate commissioner in the Administration for Children and Families, was appointed Monday to be acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs. She will oversee $283 million in annual grants to provide low-income families and others with contraceptive services, counseling and preventive screenings.
But a look at Orr’s record shows that her strongest qualifications appear to be her right-wing credentials and endorsement of the Bush administration’s failed abstinence-only policies. Before joining HHS, Orr served as senior director for marriage and family care at the conservative Family Research Council and was an adjunct professor at Pat Robertson’s Regent University.[..]
Is this the person we want overseeing a $283 million reproductive-health program, which funds birth control, pregnancy tests, counseling, and screenings for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV?
I don't think so.
Leave it to the Republicans to install people to oversee a department that they hate. We shouldn't forget that Bush tried to put a vet in as head of Women's Health ... and I'm not talking about the honorable military kind.
They think birth control is evil, but if a woman in poverty gets pregnant, she can just fend for herself. Looks to me like if you want to prevent abortion, then legal, accessible, inexpensive birth control is the way to prevent it.
While they deny health care to children who walk the earth......
This is just another example of the Bush Administration promoting politics over a sound health policy. Orr will surely escalate the war on regulated pregnancy by attacking access to contraception.
I always thought when they said, “women and children first” they meant “first to be saved” ...not “first to be tossed under the bus.”
And Bush is still confused about how everthing works--"Too many OBGYN’s aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.”
