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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Birth control is for people who don’t necessarily want to act responsibly."
Heres some Grade-A mansplaining from Alaska State Senator Pete Kelly, who thinks the way to battle Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is to distribute pregnancy tests in bars:
A. No. Because the thinking is a little opposite.
This assumes that if you know (you are pregnant) youll act responsibly. Birth control is for people who dont necessarily want to act responsibly.
Im not going to tell them what to do. Or help them do it. Thats their business. But if we have a pregnancy because someone just doesnt know, thats probably a way we can help.
Q. But isnt the act of using birth control, in itself, acting responsibly?
A. Maybe, maybe not.
Thats about a level of social engineering that we dont want to get into. All we want to do is make sure people are informed. Theyll make the right decision.
http://www.adn.com/2014/03/20/3385023/qa-senator-proposes-free-state.html
via:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/03/25/barebacking-is-the-new-responsible/
Orrex
(63,384 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Many women take birth control even though they're not sexually active, simply to regulate irregular menstruation that would otherwise leave them bleeding and cramped far more often. And there are other medical reasons to take it.
Whatever happened to all of those Republicans who kept screaming about keeping government out from between you and your doctor? Now it seems like it's 24/7/365 'we've got to stop you from getting any medical attention that prevents women from being anything but incubators for fetii that have more rights than their 'hosts', and, btw, all sex should result in a pregnancy!'
Orrex
(63,384 posts)Birth control is therefore heretical. QED.
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)And I said it because I know women who do use birth control for the very purpose I mentioned. The ones I know get a longer term shot, not a daily pill. I'd have to look it up, since my ob/gyn clinical rotation was a while back, but I believe there are women who do use the pill medically as well.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)SamKnause
(13,171 posts)who like to fuck and do not want to get pregnant. (I am a former proud member of this group)
Birth control is used for certain health issues women face.
Why are all of these fucking men talking about birth control ?
I am a 60 year old female.
We have already fought these battles and won.
This fucking, dirty, female, hippie, socialist is sick of this shit !!!!!
I wouldn't fuck a Republican or Tea Party person with someone else's vagina !!!!
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)I took the Pill in 1960 when I was 12 years old. Yes, ignorant people, it was around then. My periods were so bad I could have ended up in the hospital having a D & C (NO FETUS) to scrape all the built up blood and have blood transfusions. As it was I had severe anemia as a LITTLE GIRL. Wicked WOMAN?
Responsible women, including MARRIED WOMEN, take the Pill.
SamKnause
(13,171 posts)I am waiting for one of these "men", and I use that term lightly, to suggest clitoral circumcision be enacted in the U.S.
It seems to enrage the right wing that women like having sex for the sole purpose of enjoyment.
demigoddess
(6,648 posts)I am waiting for one of these "men", and I use that term lightly, to suggest clitoral circumcision be enacted in the U.S.
they would if they could
3catwoman3
(24,274 posts)...any ideas.
nice rant SamKnause!
This fucking, dirty, female, hippie, socialist is sick of this shit !!!!!
me too,
peace, kp
SamKnause
(13,171 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)SamKnause
(13,171 posts)he never attended a university !
He did attend a brainwashing indoctrination facility.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,894 posts)Only people who are chaste are acting responsibly.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Oh wait, 'chaste'. Not so much.
Sex is a normal and healthy part of the adult human experience. I'll take my advice from Dr Ruth, not any of these folks who want to pretend that humans can be mentally healthy while repressing natural bodily functions. (I say repressing, because there are a subset of individuals who are naturally 'asexual', with no particular sexual desires, which is also normal for them, and I don't include them in the class of 'sex is eeeeeevil' folks.)
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Mariana
(14,867 posts)to take care of, regardless of whether or not she's married, then she is also being irresponsible, isn't that right, Mr. Kelly?
What a pig.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Tell her to keep her sexually irresponsible children inline.
Mariana
(14,867 posts)Her children apparently didn't use any birth control, so in Mr. Kelly's opinion, were they therefore acting responsibly?
I just can't wrap my mind around that kind of doublethink. Republicans are insane.
Orrex
(63,384 posts)His actual opinion is that it's irresponsible to be a woman.
See how easy that is?
ecstatic
(32,899 posts)should not be in power. If I had the time and money, I'd make my own political ads that expose their thinking.