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When Blakeman said that providing teenagers access to the morning-after pill means that Obama is somehow condoning or encouraging criminal behavior, statutory rape, my mouth dropped open. I know, I know, at this point I should not be shocked by the stupid that is Fox News but every once in a while I find myself at a loss for words. The president is not encouraging anything; he is being realistic, and the reality is that kids are going to have sex. We may not want them to have sex, but they are doing it. Turning a blind eye to the problem does not make it any less of a problem. The CDC found that in 2011 329,797 babies were born to teenagers; that is 31.3 percent per thousand girls between the ages of 13-19. That is an ASTRONOMICAL number! Wouldn’t you think common sense dictates that these kids need something readily available to them just in case they find themselves in an unwanted predicament? Of course not and Julie Rodinsky hit the nail right on the head as to why.
"You’re living in a world that just doesn’t exist. The bottom line is, just because you don’t want kids who are 15, 16 years old to have sex, you’re going to punish them by not providing them with the means to not get pregnant. … It’s not encouraging it, these kids are going out and doing it; the president’s not encouraging it… All the president is doing and all the FDA is doing is assuring these kids is if they go out and do this – and nobody’s advocating that they do – but if they go out and do this that they don’t get pregnant… you might not like it, government is not condoning it, but if you don’t give them the tools to prevent abortion and pregnancy, they’ll have abortion and pregnancy."
Let's face it the Conservatives don't want women to have access to birth control, don't want them to have abortions, and don't want them to have access to the "morning after pill."
Essentially they don't want them to have sex.
However these same restrictions NEVER seem to apply to the men.
Where is the outrage over men buying condoms? Aren't THOSE encouraging per-marital sex?
Let's be honest. If conservative men could figure out some way to reverse the procedure when they got married to them, they would undoubtedly encourage female circumcision as a way to control the libidos and reproductive rights of young women.
These men fear the female sexuality and envy their ability to bring new life into this world,
If given the opportunity they would just like to shut that whole thing down.
Does anyone at Fox News know that it takes two to have sex? Why all the fuss about women; why not encourage men to use protection themselves and some self-control so that they won't rape women, whether or not they are teenagers. All of the onus is always put on the female half of the pair. I think 50%, at least, of the responsibility lies with the male half of the pair. At this point, the morning-after pill is an important safeguard for women until men become more responsible human beings.
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Perhaps there should be a "morning before" pill designed for men -- making them temporarily infertile.
ReplyDeleteIf a girl or woman becomes pregnant, then the man is financially responsible for their child for the next 18 years, since he didn't take the steps to stop a pregnancy.
Surely there is a scientific ability to create such a pill for men. Of course, there are very few men who would allow their potency to be messed with.
Financial responsibility can only start with proof of parentage (usually after a child is born). The gestation 9 months takes a toll emotionally, physically and financially on the mother which is IMPOSSIBLE to compensate. Furthermore, many states get some parental rights even to rapists when can exact an emotional toll on a mother that chooses to keep the baby, again impossible to compensate.
DeleteAn effective birth control method for men might be a reversible vasectomy for every 10 year old boy with the option of re-activating after after marriage. Tell that to a guy and watch him go into fetal position, it's hilarious.
I'm so sick of the 'news' that FOX spews! Lies, lies, lies. Plus, the crap that is being put out by the NRA - they want their liberty - they won't let their guns be taken away from them. They are so full of shit and lies too! No one (i.e. the government/Obama/Biden) are asking to take your guns and absolutely NO ONE is taking away your liberty! Only idiots would follow their thought process!
ReplyDeleteThank God, there are more people out there that think on their own and don't follow the extreme right.
Turn off FOX folks - you'll feel so much better for having done so. Read and research on your own.
I support the morning after pill. Young teenagers do NOT need to become mothers!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, President Obama!
Besides the fact teenagers are having consensual sex, there are teenage girls that get raped. Not every rape victim is able emotionally to withstand the pressures of having reported a rape, but they need access to the morning after pill.
ReplyDeleteI want raped women to have every possible access to the morning after pill. If that means some other people can get it too, TOUGH.
Incest should also be included in your last paragraph. No 14 - 15 - 16 year-old teenager should EVER become a mother under any circumstances.
DeleteLogic is not FOX's strong point. These air-heads are perfectly happy letting teenage boys get unlimited access to condoms.
ReplyDeleteThe teen birth rate in the U.S. is high but it's not 31% per thousand as you say in this article. There are actually 34.2 live births per 1,000 population which is more like 3%.
ReplyDeleteNumber of live births to 15-19 year olds: 367,678
Birth rate for 15-19 year olds: 34.2 live births per 1,000 population
Source: Births: Final Data for 2010, tables 2 and 3 Adobe PDF file [PDF - 1.3 MB
Another oddity of that CDC statistic on teen birth rate is that it includes happily married 18-19 year-olds that are trying to get pregnant. Nor does it include 20 year olds that got pregnant as teens.
DeleteThe CDC really has no way of getting accurate statistics for the number of teen girls that experience unwanted pregnancies. Pregnancies can end via medically means or miscarriage, and those events are not counted in "live births".
Statistics are misleading in many ways.
"Birth rate for 15-19 year olds: 34.2 live births per 1,000 population"
DeleteAnd if you're 12 when you get pregnant ????
Oops. Sorry, I left off the link to the CDC, source of stats given in my post.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/teenbrth.htm
I thought they all detested the "nanny" state. Shouldn't plan B be available to everyone (like guns) and let the individual and family decide how it should be used?? Errr...I guess not when it comes to the behavior of those dirty slutty WOMEN.
ReplyDeleteHow about just keeping your legs closed unless your ready to deal with a child...how is that for a concept?
ReplyDelete"You're" not "your".
DeleteAs in: you're an idiot simpleton.
This concept failed Bristol and Willow
DeleteHow about keeping your dick out of someone's vagina, how's that for a concept, asshole?
DeleteWhat a great concept.... "How about just keeping your legs closed unless your ready to deal with a child"....
DeleteIs there a planet without rape that you live on?
Or keep your dick in your pants. How's that for a concept?
DeleteCan you say "Bristol Palin?"
DeleteBrilliant!
DeleteSo, how old do women have to be when they are emotionally and financially ready to be mothers?
I wasn't ready until I was in my 30s. I'm sure my husband would have been fine with us just cuddling for 10 years until then.
He, of course, could have been having sex with any woman who was "ready."
7:53 AM That did not work for Sally Heath, Sarah Heath/Palin, Molly Heath, Bristol Palin, Willow Palin, and probably Piper Palin since she is around Creepy Chuck so much.
DeleteI don't know about you, but I enjoy sex. Sex is awesome. I lost my virginity at 18, after high school, and I was not prepared for a child then. Even at 27, when I am prepared to have a child, I DON'T want one. I have been on BC since I was 18, because my mother understood that sex does not have to mean you should have to have a child.
DeleteI used plan b once. I couldn't get an appointment soon enough for a new form of BC, so my bf and I had to use condoms. The condom broke.
What I don't understand, is most people who are against abortion, are also against affordable, easily attainable birth control AND plan b.
Plan b is not the abortion pill. It prevent the implantation of a possible fertilized egg to the uterine lining.
Conservatives want to continue "shaming" women for having sex.
ReplyDeleteYet they have no problem giving a gun to a 5 year old.
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DeleteNot at all, just be responsible about it and know you may get pregnant and if you do pick up those big girl panties you were so grown to take off in the first place. Raise the child or adoption. The child has rights and when you get pregnant your body is no longer just your own.
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Delete"just be responsible for it"
Yep, it sure is your responsibility for getting raped little girl, even if daddy did it to you.
A woman's body always remains her own . Have you ever been pregnant? Have you ever received news from a geneticist that the fetus hasno brain or half a brain and will not survive. Pregnancy is not a walk in the park it is a long demanding process. Who are you to tell others what they are to do with their bodies and lives? How many children how you adopted Mister or Miss Holier than thou self righteous one?
DeleteWhose is it? Yours? If you think for one nanosecond I would allow anyone like you tell my daughter what to do, you are out of your fucking mind.
DeleteWhat is it with these fetishes? Pregnancies are not miracles and unwanted pregnancies can be nightmares.
DeleteMy body is "just my own," even when I was pregnant. I wanted to be pregnant, wanted to have children at that time, so I took care of myself. The embryos and, later, fetuses, were there at my pleasure. If I didn't want them, I'd have aborted.
And, I think adoption can be great, but many women would much rather abort than go through a pregnancy and delivery and give up a baby to uncertain circumstances.
This is the 21st century. Can we please grow up already and let women have sex and COMPLETE control over whether and when we want to reproduce?
@8:55...I have 5 children...I gave birth to 4 and adopted 1...
DeleteSo your Mom made a big mistake with you?
DeleteSorry, 9:16, I don't buy it. I've seen you and your claim of 5 children here and on Malia's blog.
Delete"Birth to 4 and adopted 1" sounds an awful lot like your idol, Sara Palin.
Yes, I'm calling you out as Kristy Patullo.
I was 21 years old and 100 lbs when I found out that I was pregnant. I was om birth control. was sick. I had an eating disorder and I was mentally incapable of feeding myself. My doctor told me that since I was barely surviving on 200 calories a day, the fetus was incredibly malnourished.
DeleteI was told that this fetus had little chance to survive, but if I tried to go to term and give birth, the pregnancy could kill me.
So thank you for thinking that the fetus I was carrying was important enough to kill me.
G, female circumcision has ZERO impact on a female's fertility. And a female's libido has ZERO impact on getting pregnant from rape.
ReplyDeleteThank you for pointing out the responsibility that men should be taking for their part in all these unplanned pregnancies. Imagine if the pill had been formulated for men, messing with their hormonal makeup and setting the stage for cancer in their private parts. The U.S. population would have been doubled by now cause they just wouldn't have taken that risk.
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ReplyDeleteso your scenario is that the girl says to the rapist, you can't rape me because I'm keeping my legs closed until I am ready to deal with a child.
Let me guess, you are a GUY!
As a point of reference, my mom was pregnant when she got married (no birth control available), I was pregnant when I got married (birth control not readily available), my daughter went out and got birth control pills in her teens and didn't have her daughter until she was 27. Her daughter is finishing college and has been using birth control since she went to her mom as a teenager and told her she was ready to start using birth control. Yeah, this teenage sex stuff certainly is a brand new thing.
ReplyDeleteI was very much the unwanted 3rd child in 1950. My mother had no qualms about telling me that she would have had an abortion if it had been legal.
DeleteIt's not just unmarried girls/women that experience unwanted pregnancies.
9:05,
DeleteYou are a liar, or you are a poor excuse for a human being. Think about it. Your very own mother told you she would have aborted you if she had the option. What mother says such a horrific thing to her child? A bad one? Maybe. It would explain why you are the way you are today.
Dearest 9:14:
DeleteJust STFU.
I was an unwanted child in 1947. My mother had 5 miscarriages between my brother and me. She sobbed on the bus riding home after getting the news. If abortion had been available my mother would, and should, have had one.
My mother loved me very much and helped me become the woman of accomplishment and compassion I am.
What "way" is she, 9:14? Not only do you want to control women's bodies, you're also a mind reader?
DeleteIt can't be possible that your think every mother forced to carry a baby to term, will never ever mention that fact to the child at some point in its life.
DeletePre-birth control pill, lots of kids were able to figure out they were not wanted.
No rape is a totally different matter. Im talking about mutual sex and yes if your going to have sex you should be ready to deal with the symptom of sex which is pregnancy. And I am a woman with 5 children, not a man.
ReplyDeleteThank God you are not my daughter's mother!
DeleteThe only sensible comment you've made. Inadvertently, of course. One way to deal with pregnancy is the morning after pill.
DeleteThanks for the opening.
Good, you are "a woman with 5 children, not a man." Now let's see if you can use your brain.
DeleteIf one of those 5 children is RAPED, they probably didn't keep their "legs closed". So they are entitled to the morning after pill. Now your problem is that other girls/women are raped and need access to that same morning after pill. But, you, you perfect women with 5 children, have NO way of knowing which girls/women asking for the pill need it because they were raped. So, your (pathetically ridiculous) solution is to NOT give the pill to any of them.
That's not using your brain. That's wallowing in the idiocy of your emotions, at the cost of tormenting girls/women that have done NOTHING wrong, they just got raped.
"symptom of sex?"
DeleteIf I believed you had five children (which I don't), I'd worry for their emotional health.
If I had a daughter who got pregnant I would not want her to kill my grandchild. There are other options.
DeleteAn embry or fetus is not a child.
DeleteYou obviously care less about the emotionally and physical well-being of a cluster of cells than about your own (fake) daughter. That makes you a crappy (fake) mother.
9:30 Abortions are a good way to handle a daughter's pregnancy especially when they are 14, 15 and 16. They are way too young to become mothers and/or handle a pregnancy and give the child up for adoption. I'd go the abortion route for a daughter in a heartbeat! It being 'my' grandchild would not even be considered.
DeleteMy mother brought me to my abortion, she hugged me as I sobbingly told her I was pregnant, and she never once judged me. To her, my physical emotional and mental well being was more important than her would be grandchild.
DeleteMy abortion was medically necessary. I would have died had I attempted to give birth. But my mother would have stood with me regardless of the circumstances.
To anon@8:12: What? you better checkit..who's the moron here?
ReplyDeleteYou.
DeletePlease. You're making it too easy.
Be a little more challenging.
I am 9:05. I am not a liar. My mother was right to tell me that her medical condition made the timing of her third pregnancy very precarious. I shared that information here because my mother's situation made it absolutely clear to me that women need to control what happens to their bodies.
ReplyDelete(My mother was in no way horrible. I was raised in a happy home and treated as well if not better than my siblings. My mother was adamantly in support of Roe V. Wade. Telling me that how helpless and scared she felt when pregnant with me was a big part of my own adamant support for Roe V. Wade.)
Thank you 9:45 for telling your story. I was going to support your earlier comment by saying women should have these honest discussions with their daughters (and sons) for the very reasons you write here.
DeleteYikes!
DeleteSeriously, why would a mother tell a child she would have aborted her? Why?
My wife's fetal alpha protein test revealed our child would be born with grotesque abnormalities. She asked me what we should do. I told her the choice was hers to make. Either way, I would support her. I lied.
My wife graduated at the top of her class at Notre Dame. She is a devout Catholic. I am an atheist. She opted to abort. I said, "No, have the baby. I will love it no matter what."
Well, guess what? The FAPT shows negative for abnormalities and normal for twins. We had twins. One of those twins is doing ovarian cancer research and the other is working with a Nobel Prize Winner.
On the lives of my children, I am telling the absolute truth.
9:45, I misunderstood your original comment.
I am sorry.
So, I'm curious. What would you have done if you wife had chosen to abort instead of being talked out of it by you.
DeleteAnecdotes are great, but they are only anecdotes.
10:56.
DeleteYou ask a great question. The truth, unfortunately, is not so great.
All it took was for me to convince her to wait and take another ultrasound, which revealed twins.
The fact remains that she was eager to abort, in spite of her religion.
And in spite of the fact that I will love any child of mine no matter what.
Period.
9:10 It's too bad that you can't get no satisfaction and are having your 19th nervous breakdown because you can't always get what you want, so get the fuck off of my cloud and go eat some brown sugar at the Voodoo Lounge.
ReplyDeleteBook of Stones.
Verse of Jagger & Richards.
One should not drunk post.
DeleteI wonder how they'd spin it if President Obama says chaining pregnant teens to a bed and forcing them to give birth was "a good idea"?
ReplyDeleteThis clip is why I avoid Fox News like the plague.
I'm all for OTC "Plan B". I'm all for pills, patches, implants, diaphragms , IUD's, Sponges, Condoms, Dental Dams, legal abortion, Tubal Ligation, Clothes Pins, Vasectomies, Vise Grips, "No",etc. etc.
I taught my son and daughters about sex, the proper name and functions of their body parts. The reason was that I'm aware that teens do have sex and I want them to feel comfortable enough to talk about anything with their parents. They're well aware that not all adoptions turn into wonderful, fulfilled, shiney happy lives, but that's an option for them as well.
There are perfectly valid reasons for all methods, and as long as they're informed and see their doctor, I support whatever they decide. Plan B should be available in case something fails.
I will reconsider my view of abortion when mandatory fatherhood is the law of the land.
ReplyDeleteas if....
Mandatory fatherhood does not the address the situation of raped women. A raped girl/woman has done nothing wrong and is entitled to make her own decisions about planB/abortion.
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