Even in Georgia there are politicians who do good work and call people’s attention towards the stupidity of the anti-abortion and anti-contraception hysteria.
Wouldn’t it be cool to have Rep. Neal as our president?
Kudos to Georgia State Rep. Yasmin Neal!
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That was fantastic! Thanks for sharing it 🙂 All that’s missing is subtitles… (I always turn them on when I’m watching things because my reading comprehension is quite often significantly higher than my verbal comprehension – I had to watch this 4 times to get what she said.)
That is really pretty awesome. The only thing I worry about is that people would latch onto the idea that men *shouldn’t* have the right to choose, either… because, as is put so well by Monty Python: “Every Sperm is Sacred!” – wouldn’t that be a terrifying response?
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Yes, I also thought that it was possible that some fanatics would take this seriously. The war on condoms can truly be their next step.
I’m sorry about the lack of subtitles. I should have created them but I’m completely wiped out by the pre-spring break week.
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On the one hand, it’s refreshing to see a politician comparing abortion to birth control. Abortion is not killing a person, it is killing something that could potentially become a person. And I’m glad Rep. Neal can acknowledge that, at least implicitly.
On the other hand, I’ve never seen a Democrat stand up for a 16 year old boy’s right to get a vasectomy without parental notification.
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Then I guess we’ll have to look to the Republicans for that support.
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“Then I guess we’ll have to look to the Republicans for that support.”
– Good burn. 🙂
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Have you seen many people stand up against circumcision of infants? Children are still considered their parents’ property.
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This is just an incorrect representation of the debate The issue is whether a person or a group with a true religious belief that a practice is wrong should be made to pay for it in direct opposition of their religion.
Can you give me a direct quote where a political candidate involved in this debate is saying birth control should be regulated or outlawed? The only one I can find is Representative Neal above.
Thanks
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“This is just an incorrect representation of the debate”
– Which debate? We already discussed the Catholics, health insurance and the surrounding controversy here: https://clarissasblog.com/2012/02/25/religion-and-birth-control-coverage/
Now we are having a completely different discussion.
“Can you give me a direct quote where a political candidate involved in this debate is saying birth control should be regulated or outlawed”
– Does the name Santorum tell you anything?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/15/1065069/-Santorum-Birth-control-HARMS-women-AND-society
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/rick-santorum-contraception-6632083
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Oops took bait & drifted off target. So sorry.
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No, it’s a very good comment.
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No the issue is mission creep from place of worship to the full range of different sectarian nonprofits. A little father down this slippery slope and business proprietors will go all “conscientious objector” in ways that add up to “we don’t serve your kind,” or worse, “we don’t hire your kind.” It’s already come to that, of course, but the real fun starts when the courts start taking seriously this interpretation of what religious freedom is about.
Sectarian hospitals are of particular interest. Many of us would go out of our way to avoid shopping at a store with HR practices such as the contraceptive ban, but choice of a hospital is of course often not a choice at all, and the hapless emergency patient is bringing tens of thousands of dollars of business to an organization they don’t exactly believe in. What about our “freedom of conscience?”
I’m all for government butting out of the affairs of places of worship (where’s the conservative penchant for narrow definitions when you need it?), but when a group hangs a shingle and does business with the larger public, it becomes a public matter.
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The Field Negro (a blogger) has renamed Santorum, Sanitarium and I think we should all adopt this.
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“Can you give me a direct quote where a political candidate involved in this debate is saying birth control should be regulated or outlawed?”
– Santorum says “contraception is not OK”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-6Ww6vAJqs&feature=youtu.be
Of course, Craig from Belvidere has run away in terror once he realized that he made an idiot out of himself with his comment.
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I just wish there was a real male parallel to abortion… but there isn’t, so for me, this is embarrassingly off the mark. Vasectomy is more comparable to women having hysterectomy.
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Not really because vasectomy is very easily reversible.
But I agree that, for obvious reasons, there is no real parallel.
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