Life Begins with Engine Exhaust

Life Begins with Engine Exhaust
by righteousbabe
Sat Nov 18, 2006 at 01:59:42 PM PST
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/18/165942/45

This Monday will be a historic day for mustached, cartoon-watching, misogynistic nine-year-olds pretending to be doctors everywhere: the first time that one of their kind ascends to control of an office of the U.S. executive branch. Whoever said that BushCo didn't value diversity?

I'm referring to Dr. Eric Keroack, appointed as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs, a position with no confirmation process; the good Dr. just gets to show up for work Monday and begin his reign of lying, forced birth, and Bugs Bunny for all. He'll control Title X, the federal program that provides family planning and reproductive health services for low-income women. Yeah, of course he's anti-choice, anti-woman, anti-science, and probably anti-human. But, do you know what separates this appointee from the last in the long, long line of Bush appointees who can't be troubled to even pretend that they don't adhere to the maxim, "Every time you shit on a person in need, the RNC gets a donation"?

Dr. Eric Keroack lacks the basic ability to differentiate between a woman's body and his Chevy Impala.

The new head of the federal government's reproductive health services is a man who claims that if women have too much sex, their oxytocin dries up and are condemned to spent the rest of eternity as a shriveled old hag who can never ever have a good relationship again! (Nothing new there: abstinence-onlyers have long claimed that if women don't devote themselves to preserving their "purity," they get "used up," and then, no pleasure for you! Thankfully, most people have a better understanding of anatomy than the Abstinence Clearinghouse.

The new head of the federal government's reproductive health services is a man whose purpose up to this point has been to lie to and fuck over as many low income women as possible through his "crisis pregnancy center." (You know, the people who coerce and harass teenage girls, and who claim that terminating a pregnancy leads to mental illness.) Again, that's no shocker: although GWB may claim he supports access to contraception for people who he considers "responsible adults," we all know that his definition of "responsible adults" doesn't include dirty sluts and welfare queens. Keroack's new position of denying contraception access to low-income women will fit right in with the rhetoric: they aren't "responsible," because if they were, they wouldn't be low-income. Shame on those immoral women for daring to be in need in the Bush economy!

The new head of the federal government's reproductive health services is a man who claims that "pre-marital sex is really modern germ warfare," which I guess makes sense if you deny access to any methods of reducing the spread of sexually-transmitted infections other than "keep your legs crossed," and if you view sex as an act of violence, hurting, and war. But it's not as though Keroack's cohorts have ever been good at that whole consent thing.

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While Dr. Keroack's scientific explanations seem more fit of a creepy ten-year-old than a doctor, recall that the anti-choice movement has never been the most lucid extremist movement around.

No, the real new development in anti-choice strategies as evidenced by the Keroack appointment is his justification of of using ultrasounds in anti-abortion counseling. (Ultrasounds are often used at crisis pregnancy clinics to guilt women into continuing a pregnancy, and can mislead those who do continue them to think they've had actual prenatal care that they haven't received.) Keroack explains their use thusly:

"Even Midas lets you look at your old muffler before they advise you to change it."

I'm wondering what life must be like for a person who so easily confuses women with cars. I don't know how he manages to drive anywhere without instinctively trying to force his car to give birth. It must be terribly confusing to intuitively begin to call his car a dirty slut every time he washes it. Remember, guys: Eric Keroack says its sinful to where a condom while filling up your gas tank.

But seriously: a fetus is a muffler? So what, uteruses are just another car part that Keroack checks and tunes while going about his work "caring for women's bodies"? The "compassionate peer counseling" that he provides women at his clinic is just a tune-up on a car, a mechanical operation to force a non-sentient machine to complete its role properly?

Note to any people who might be currently looking for work: start grunting, hitting things, smearing feces around, and beating up anybody who isn't exactly like you (other cavemen.) BushCo will give you a job by Monday.

I don't even know what to say. :scared:

looking for firing squad volunteers.

They should have never started calling it a tin "Lizzie".

Looks like someone just totalily got the wrong message from A Handmaiden's tale.

demand an ultrasound to look at it myself first because after all, even Midas lets you see your muffler before you change it? And if I die from a rupture, it doesn't matter because I got to exercise my right to see my appendix first?

Huh. Just think of the implications for heart attack and stroke sufferers. Automotive medicine practitioners. No, I think I'll stick with *doctors*.