Anti-abortion crowd targets birth control

Keep 'em barefoot and pregnant I say

:sarcasm:

BONNIE ERBE
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST

It's no secret to those who follow Washington politics that birth control has been "next on the list" of anti-abortion, religious conservatives. Following the enthronement of President Bush's Victorian coterie in 2001, their top priority -- an imposition of "everything but" a ban on abortion -- has been accomplished in five short years. Now there's undeniable proof that abortion was not the home run they longed for, but more tantamount to first base in a long-range plan to ban birth control, too.

First, the widely maligned Alan Guttmacher Institute -- widely maligned by religious conservatives, that is -- issued a report showing the economic divide disproportionately foists more unplanned pregnancies on poor women, while simultaneously denying them access to abortion. Courtesy of the so-called Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funds for abortion, and the abstinence-only crowd, women living below the poverty line are now four times more likely than affluent women to experience unintentional pregnancy (and by inference, to bear a child, whether wanted, planned or not).

In addition, The Washington Post informs us that 50 percent more poor women gave birth in 2001 than in 1994, while the birth rate decreased among affluent women. Poor women who chose to terminate their pregnancies aborted an average of six days later than their affluent counterparts.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/269428_erbe09.html

This planet can only support so many people. These self righteous clowns possess zero ability to think and reason.

do not give up. but some stuff like this is working its way across the nation. person by person, city by city.....

W's push for theocracy is one factor in his downslide. The MSM just hasn't had the guts to ask the question yet in the polls.

Nor has the decent right wingers found the guts to challenge the rabid right wing on this. Hang in there.

These people are sick....really sick.

Like God doesn't abort little babies...every day. Yes, it happens. Three months is a critical time, but it also happens naturally before and after that particular date. It is a survival mechanism. It just doesn't work perfectly. Nothing does.

Killing all those future lives.

Just say no and there will be no problems. That's human nature right? You don't want kids, just say no, you're raped, just say no to abortion. Take control of your life, be accountable. Be perfect.

Women, submit to your man, obey the American Taliban. Accept you are chattel. Do the Godly thing.

Oh, I'm still on the Freeper thing.

Check out the May issue. There is an all out assault on women's reproductive health coming from this administration. They don't like us so much. This is war.

He's slapped them long and hard. I think even the Republican women can see this slap down. Laura Bush is evidently slow to come out of the anesthetic.

is picking this up where Raygun left off they tryed this crap in the '80's right after the Hyde amendment passed, it didn't work then, can't let it work now.

Where women we made to be surrogates for rich women and we were run by a bunch or war mongering theocratic male chauvinists. Kind of like now only worse.

out of it, but the novel is the definitive work.

just had a doctors appointment today and he won't write a script for birth control unless your married. That's something i haven't heard for a long time.

make sure his name is posted everywhere so that women know to avoid him)

but i'll pass it along to her.

then MAYBE we'll take you seriously on issues dealing with sex and dangers associated with it.

is another question for women to ask when making a doctors appiontment, if they (the docs) have any ethics they will tell the truth.

visions of women having 25 kids when the world is already overpopulated

Why would they target birth control??? As someone else mentioned, overpopulation is ALREADY a problem!

As a boss of mine saw on a bumper sticker once: "If you can't FEED them - don't BREED them!"

And I have to confess, I hold generally conservative views on abortion. That being said, I've never felt 'unclean' for selling BC at the pharmacy for the 7 years I've worked there. That's just crazy. Yes, I feel that life begins at conception. But I don't see anything wrong with PREVENTING conception. That'd be like bringing guys who "choke the chicken" ;) up on murder charges!

Then again, I haven't had any qualms for selling 'Plan B' either. The way I see it, I'm not the one who made the choice, for whatever reason.

And don't forget, BC pills are ALSO used to help a lot of women regulate irregular cycles. We sell BC to kids I all but KNOW can't be sexually active, for that purpose.

and have their churches PAY FOR THEM!