Friday, February 18, 2011

All the time!! WHY!!

New article  (Please remember this is opinion!!! and I'm not defending one way or the other!)
So on Thursday I released a post about the right attacking public media sources.  On my way out the door on the morning of Thursday; while listening to my public radio station I head yet more news that depressed me.  As of February 9, 2011 (Last week about the same time as the Kill Big Bird Bill was coming out) a new bill was introduced that attacks Planned Parenthood.  Basically the legislation says that all funding to PPH would be stopped. 
     So that means "all help" for underage, impoverished, immigrant and others will no longer exist!  I quoted all help because there are other organizations out side of PPH who do this type of work but most of those have very strong religious influences and offer a very one sided view on options.  PPH is not a perfect system but given our nations ethics, religion, and social excepted ideas of normalcy this is the best wide spread system we have. 
     I know many women who benefit and use the resources PPH offers.  In fact if it wasn't for PPH I'm sure there would be more babies in my circle of friends.  The sad thing is, is that these people I'm talking about actually come from middle class background and are supposedly of the white and highly educated class.  You have no idea how many times I have explained to different women that if they are taking birth control and taking an antibiotic at the same time that their birth control is not effective!  It makes me want to scream at parents, churches, schools and anyone else who has a hand in sex education and tell them how terrible of a time they are doing. 
     The thing that really makes me chuckle about this story is that the history of PPH is rather dark.  In fact once you get past the fluff story that PPH gives you; PPH was a racist program.  More info here  In 1925 when PPH first started to become an organization and was actually known as Margaret Sanger's American Birth Control League (ABCL), the original intent was to reduce and cleanse the population of the "Black and Yellow" menace that was threatening White America!  PPH was RACIST PROPAGANDA when it FIRST STARTED!!!  With time and softening from more liberal viewpoint PPH has become what it is today; but still in it's fist inception it was a very, very, VERY conservative program.  
     Please people if you are female, you have a mother, sister, daughter, or love someone who could become pregnant we need to stop anything that could shut down the single most effective program in America!  Call, write or email you reps. 

2 comments:

  1. They're also trying to re-define the definition of rape so that if a woman doesn't have bruises or broken bones it doesn't count.

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  2. Yes, scarry right! Actually even in cases of demestic abuse police offers sugjest that you allow you asailant to beat you rather then fight back (Unless you think your going to die) so that the case is clearer in court and on paper?!

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