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People Who Have Sex Should Campaign for Obama

9:11AM ON 09/19/2008
BY Jessica Ramsey

hillary-clinton To all the hetero ladies: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - the anti-choice movement is coming after your birth control.

Senator Hillary Clinton, proving that she is pretty rad when it comes to those monolithic “women’s issues,” has a great op-ed in the NYTimes today.

LAST month, the Bush administration launched the latest salvo in its eight-year campaign to undermine women’s rights and women’s health by placing ideology ahead of science: a proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services that would govern family planning. It would require that any health care entity that receives federal financing — whether it’s a physician in private practice, a hospital or a state government — certify in writing that none of its employees are required to assist in any way with medical services they find objectionable.

Laws that have been on the books for some 30 years already allow doctors to refuse to perform abortions. The new rule would go further, ensuring that all employees and volunteers for health care entities can refuse to aid in providing any treatment they object to, which could include not only abortion and sterilization but also contraception.

Thanks for the memo on this, Hillary. I love you.

So wait - if anti-choice folks had their way, I don’t ever have the option to have an abortion, but I also can’t take steps to avoid an unplanned pregnancy by using birth control. Okay, then, they trained us with abstinence only sex ed, so no sex until marriage… Cool… But this means I can’t even use birth control when I’m married. WTF?

Clearly my body is just a vessel for pushing out the babies. Don’t get me wrong, I love the babies, but there’s all this other stuff I gotta do before I have one. Grad school, my first novel, that Daily Dose orgy party…

(BTW, reproductive health is something hetero men should pay attention to as well. Dude, it’s birth control. Like, you can totally have sex with your girlfriend, or wife, and know that 99% of the time she’s not gonna get pregnant.)

What are you waiting for? Get your behind on that bus to NH. We can’t afford another anti-choice administration in the White House. Certainly not one with that crazy beehive lady who thinks that women who have just been raped should pay for their own medical examination.

2 Comments on “ People Who Have Sex Should Campaign for Obama ”

  1. Birth control is the answer to preventing abortion,and I part ways with any pro-lifers who oppose contraception or education on the subject.

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  2. And let’s not forget that in addition to preventing unwanted, unplanned pregnancy, most forms of birth control also provide: shorter, lighter periods; reduced cramping; clearer skin; and decrease in fatigue and other PMS symptoms. All this makes women prettier and happier, which makes the world a better place for everyone.

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