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| Worst Texas doctor EVER. |
Texas would cut $3 million from programs to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and spend that money instead on abstinence education under a contentious Republican-sponsored measure tucked into the state budget Tuesday night.
The GOP-controlled House overwhelmingly approved the budget amendment, but not before a tense exchange with Democrats that veered into the unusually personal.
Republican state Rep. Stuart Spitzer, a doctor and the amendment's sponsor, at one point defended the change by telling the Texas House that he practiced abstinence until marriage. The first-term lawmaker said he hopes schoolchildren follow his example, saying, "What's good for me is good for a lot of people."
My favorite part of the article is this exchange:
Democrat state Rep. Harold Dutton asked Spitzer if abstinence worked for him.
"It did," Spitzer replied. "I've had sex with one woman in my life and that's my wife."
"Is that the first woman you asked?" Dutton replied.
Shouts of "Decorum!" soon echoed on the House floor as the back-and-forth intensified. Efforts by Democrats to put the debate in writing for the record - usually a perfunctory request - failed.
I wish I could have been a fly on the wall for that exchange.
Once again here are Republicans taking money from a prevention plan whose effectiveness has been proven, and attempting to apply to a program that is doomed to fail.
And the fact that his amendment was sponsored by a doctor, just makes it all the more egregious.
According to the article this amendment is far from being passed, but I would suggest to these Texas lawmakers that before they put it to a final vote they give Indiana a call and find out how things worked for them when THEY took the focus off of HIV testing.
Yep, people are dying in Indiana because of the stupidity of Pence. Looks like they learned little from the Ryan White debacle years ago.
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DeleteRep. Dutton was being nice, the first thought I had
ReplyDelete"Was she the first person who said yes to you?".
Spitzer is another freaky GOP/TP.
Three million dollars to be flushed down the toilet.
ReplyDeleteBristol Palin would like to apply to be the spokesperson for abstinence in Texas for the low, low price of $3 million. She promises to be just as effective as any other abstinence education program (zero).
ReplyDeleteO/T Now where have I seen that backdrop before?
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Dumbkota sounds like a moron. Another paid shill for NRA.
DeleteStop ISIS by arming everyone and let them carry guns everywhere.
All the while "pimping" his T-shirts!
Delete"...give Indiana a call and find out how things worked for them when THEY took the focus off of HIV testing."
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It won't matter. You can't get through to these goons. HIV will only happen to "those people", so it won't affect them at all. Nor will any of the associated public health issues or societal problems be of concern, because they are too damn stupid to realize that what happens to "those people" can affect their own lives.
And of course, they and their loved ones will never ever be "those people", because jeebus and freedum.
I have a theory: someone, perhaps a small handful of someones, is profiting from the abstinance-only dogma by producing the abstinence-only materials that are widely used in many schools – and that that person/those people is/are very well-connected to the GOP power structure.
DeleteThis is very similar to the windfall that Neil Bush received from his 'educational' computer software once his brother became the 'education President' who just happened to adopt policies (NCLB) that ensured that Neil's computer software (aka Excite!) would be used in classrooms all over America.
A similar picture emerges when we examine the anti-gay position of the GOP. Though gay 'conversion therapy' has been denounced by the American Psychological Association and American Medical Association, people still run those 'clinics' and make lots of money from them. I would imagine that in every case, they have close ties to those who are in the GOP power structure.
A similar story emerges with respect to the GOP anti-drug and drug-testing position: a few GOPers are raking in tons of moolah by running clinics that process these tests, and those GOPers have direct lines to the GOP establishment.
The GOP: look at any position that they hold, then follow the money. They are suffering a particularly unusual and ironic blowback in Indiana merely because they are being whiplashed as they teeter wildly back and forth between ideology and big money, ideology and big money, ideology and big money. And we know who won the fight: big money. This is a party run and controlled by puppeteers, and everything we watch is theater –theater that drastically damages and destroys the lives of everyone around, including its participants.
Doesn't this idiot understand you can get HIV from other means?
ReplyDeleteExpecting the next HIV epidemic in TX. I suppose this guy doesn't vaccinate his kids either.
What is he a doctor of, besides stupidity, he could have a PhD in phys ed for all I know,
There should be a law that doctors cannot run for office, at any level. It's amazing how backwards they all are. I pity the former patients.
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He's also quoted as saying that he's going to continue to push abstinence funding until people stop having sex before marriage.
ReplyDeleteYeah, like that's EVER going to happen. Plenty of that in the Bible, too, Bub.
Even if both the man and woman remain abstinent until marriage, they still need to have good reliable accurate information about sexua health, STDs and birth control options - unless they both accept that they will bear and raise a child every single time they have sex, from when they get married (let's say, 28) to when she goes through menopause (let's say 54).
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the Monty Python "Meaning of Life" sketch where the sanctimonious Protestant husband complains about his neighbors huge brood of kids: "Those bloody Catholics. Every time they have sex they have a child!". And his wife says "Well, it's the same with us. We've had sex twice and we have two children".
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As a practicing health-care worker here in Texas, this is beyond appalling. Already we rank dead last in public health-care spending, one of the few states where needle exchange programs are no only refused funding, but illegal....exchange programs can cut the incidence of HIV and HEP C dramatically, but we all know how that good old GOP deals with these little things called 'facts' If I didn't live in Austin (A true Oasis from stupid) I would avoid this place altogether.
ReplyDeleteJust when you think things can't get any crazier! Other doctors should be appalled at Spitzer and have a come to Jesus meeting with him. He is a total embarrassment to the profession and to the state! His plan won't work. It's just a waste of money; but I'm wondering who is profiting from this nonsense? Something is not right and this stinks to high heaven!
ReplyDeleteThis isn't about HIV or sex or abstinence or health. This is about putting millions of dollars in particular unqualified pockets.
ReplyDeleteFriends, if you have any way of tapping into the river of golden public money that Republicans are stealing every hour of every day, I suggest you round up some friends and call yourselves "health educators" without delay.
Good enough for Texas, let them live and die in they're ignorance.
ReplyDeleteWith all the drought and jobs troubles down there Texas could certainly do better with a much lower population. Problem is, it's never who the fundies think are going to die from HIV...they always think it's gonna be the gays or the IV drug users but it's probably gonna be their "abstinent" daughter who slept with the wrong person. I love it!
DeleteAnd he actually said, "What's good for me is good for a lot of people."
ReplyDeleteArrogant, isn't he?
There's nothing in this world more attractive and sexy as a smart man. This guy is neither. I've scraped smarter dog poo from my shoes than this guy's brain. Who will be the spokesperson? Willow? Bristol? Bwaaahaaaaa!
ReplyDeleteIf they want money for abstinence education, why not pull it from the obscenely bloated Defense Budget?
ReplyDeleteThey'll never miss a piddly $3 million. What is that? A few toilet seats and a couple of ashtrays?