Sarah Palin to give speech for anti-abortion group masquerading as a sex and pregnancy resource center.

Courtesy of The Joplin Globe: 

 Sarah Palin will visit Joplin at the end of September to talk about her experience having a child with disabilities. 

The former governor of Alaska and vice presidential nominee will speak at a fundraising event for the LifeChoices Health Network at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, in Taylor Performing Arts Center at Missouri Southern State University.

Still using Trig to get speaking gigs, huh Sarah?

Perhaps she ought to invite the people who really care for Trig to do the talk. After all they would actually know what they are talking about.

By the way this LifeChoices outfit is a thinly camouflaged anti-abortion group that pretends to give young women  advice on sex, sexuality transmitted diseases, and prenatal care but is really all about convincing them to avoid sex altogether and keep the baby if they do not do the former.

This is in their Truth about Sex section: 

Be aware of the message the media gives you about sex. Is it true? Movies, music and magazines tell us that sex is just a physical act, it's no big deal, it's without consequences and it's just part of dating. 

The truth is that sex is more than just physical. Sex involves all of a person - their mental, emotional, social, spiritual AND physical parts. When someone gives themselves sexually to another, they are giving a part of who they are, which includes all the components. The reality - sex is a very big deal; it's the most intimate act two people can share with one another. 

The main negative consequences of sex are obvious: 

pregnancy 
sexually transmitted infections 
broken hearts 

These are serious and sometimes life-long consequences! Just because you are in a dating relationship does NOT mean that you need to be having sex. In fact, if you really care about your boyfriend or girlfriend you will want the best for them. Is putting them at risk of getting a disease or giving up their dream of going to college to take care of a baby, the best for them? True love is patient and willing to wait, wanting the best for each other.

Yeah nothing judgmental or manipulative about that!

Gee I wonder if they have a religious agenda?

Need you ask?

This is a supposedly a testimonial from one of its clients:

You're Not Alone 

"Talking with my counselor helped me realize that I really do have a lot of people in my life for support and that no matter what, God is there for me."

Pushing abstinence and God, of course these people are willing to pay Palin to show up and lie about giving birth to Trig.

Perhaps one of the audience members might be brave enough to ask her why if she was so concerned about her Down syndrome baby's health she decided to fly all the way from Texas to Alaska while dripping amniotic fluid instead of rushing to a hospital to make sure her baby was okay.

I mean if these people are really focused on prenatal care you would think that would be the first question posed to this fraud.

Don't you think?

Tennessee becomes first state to put mothers in jail for actions harming the fetus.

Courtesy of Salon:  

Tennessee has become the first state in the nation to pass a law criminalizing women for their pregnancy outcomes. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam took the 10 days allotted to him to consider the advice of doctors, addiction experts and reproductive health groups urging him to veto the punitive and dangerous measure that allows prosecutors to charge a woman with criminal assault if she uses illegal drugs during her pregnancy and her fetus or newborn is considered harmed as a result. Haslam ignored these recommendations — and the recommendations of nearly every major medical association, including the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy — and signed the measure anyway. 

Opponents of the new law share a concern that a lack of access to health care and treatment facilities will result in the disproportionate targeting and jailing of poor mothers and mothers of color, particularly in rural districts throughout the state. 

Republican state Sen. Mike Bell, one of the seven Republicans in the state Senate to vote against the measure (every Democrat in the state Senate voted in favor), recently told Salon that this lack of access is a problem he thinks will hurt the women of his district and their families. “I represent a rural district,” he said. “There’s no treatment facility for these women there, and it would be a substantial drive for a woman caught in one of these situations to go to an approved treatment facility. Looking at the map of the state, there are several areas where this is going to be a problem.” 

Only two of the state’s 177 addiction treatment facilities that provide on-site prenatal care allow older children to stay with their mothers while they are undergoing treatment. And only 19 of these facilities offer any addiction care specifically oriented toward pregnant women. Tennessee has also refused the Medicaid expansion, leaving many women without reliable access to basic medical or prenatal care, much less drug treatment. 

The law does nothing to expand treatment options for women in Tennessee, a fact that did not seem to trouble Republican state Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver, who sponsored the House version of the bill and remains one of its most vocal defenders. “I don’t know what to say about [how] some [women] have insurance and some do not,” she recently told Salon. “It’s a terrible thing, but I don’t want to get into that because that’s another subject.”

This is one of those laws that almost feels like the right thing to do, but once you consider the possible ramifications it becomes immediately clear that it certainly it NOT.

I personally work with children born with FAS, or coke addicted, and I can certainly testify to my anger at their mothers fro being so uncaring and irresponsible that they condemned their children to a lifetime of suffering.

However this law is guaranteed to keep expectant mothers, who desperately need prenatal care, away from physicians and health care workers who could identify potential problems with the pregnancy, or even provide nutritional advice.

And of course this opens the door for more stringent laws in Tennessee's future that will almost certainly further restrict a woman's right to choose.

Because if you don't think that this is ultimately about abortion then you certainly don't understand Republican politics.

Today's Witless Wailing from Wasilla, this time courtesy of Bristol.

The above image is posted over on the Facebook page of Mama Grizzly's mewling baby factory.

The caption above says "Good Riddance," and below is the sentence, "This is great news!"

There is a link to a HuffPo piece, which states the following: 

More than 50 abortion clinics across the country have closed or stopped offering the procedure since a heavy wave of legislative attacks on providers began in 2010, according to The Huffington Post's nationwide survey of state health departments, abortion clinics and local abortion-focused advocacy groups. 

At least 54 abortion providers across 27 states have shut down or ended their abortion services in the past three years, and several more clinics are only still open because judges have temporarily blocked legislation that would make it difficult for them to continue to operate. Nebraska and Massachusetts have each added one clinic since 2010, and the other 21 states and the District of Columbia, most of which have not passed new anti-abortion laws since 2010, were unable to accurately count their clinics because their health departments do not license abortion providers separately from other kinds of medical providers. The Huffington Post's tally did not include hospitals that provide abortions. 

"This kind of change is incredibly dramatic," said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager at the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization. "What we've been seeing since 1982 was a slow decline, but this kind of change ... [is] so different from what's happened in the past."

The fact that the closing of these clinics, which do far more than simply provide abortions by the way,  is being celebrated by a spoiled, arrogant, over privileged, little bitch is bad enough. But then when you factor in that there are numerous rumors which indicate that both she and her sister have benefited from the services provided by these clinics in the past. it just makes it that much sleazier.

Essentially, much like her turn as the abstinence spokesperson, Bristol is saying "I got mine, now fuck the rest of you!"

By the way also contained in the HuffPo piece are these sad statistics: 

While some of the 54 closures were due to unrelated factors, the states that have lost the most clinics over the past three years are the same ones that have seen draconian new abortion restrictions and the biggest cuts to family planning funding. In Texas, which has lost nine clinics, lawmakers have slashed family planning funding in the state budget, required abortion clinics to become ambulatory surgical centers and required abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Arizona lawmakers passed similar legislation and pushed out a total of 12 providers; the state had 18 abortion clinics in 2010 and now has only six, according to NARAL Pro-Choice Arizona. 

"This has turned into a nightmare," said Kat Sabine, executive director of NARAL's Arizona affiliate. "The kind of efforts the women have to take to get family planning or abortion services are just incredible, and you can only get care if you can get out of the community to do it. If you're on a reservation or rural part of the state, unless you have reliable transportation, you're not going to get care."

Only a sociopath celebrates the fact that thousands of young women will now have a far more difficult time getting access to birth control or prenatal care.

At this point I would like to invite any of the numerous young people in Wasilla who know full well just how hypocritical it is of Bristol to be celebrating these closures, to reach out to myself or someone else in the media. 

I think it is time past that certain facts were brought out into the open.

I would gladly do it myself, but I need at least one good source with actual firsthand knowledge to come forward first.