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Now, Michael, Dear
Lets talk a little about the reproductive system. Ill try to use simple terms so as not to talk over your tiny little head (the one on your shoulders and not in your pants). I dont know much about Uncle Sugar, but during a certain age that can be shorter for some and longer for others, we women get a monthly visit from Aunt Flo. Shes fairly predictable that Flo, but sometimes she can throw you for a loop just for the hell of it. Its certainly far from full-proof, but if you are very careful you just might be able to time your relations around Flos visit and avoid a pregnancy. Pay no mind to those large Catholic families. They might just be bad at math or maybe they thought Aunt Flo was a heavy sleeper. (Think about it.)
Now for some women, sex is something they would prefer to avoid. Just look at Janet Huckabee with her three children. But for most women and most men sex is something that happens more than just the third Thursday after the second Friday of odd-numbered days in months that end in R. Like I told you, it can get a little tricky. In fact, most women dont equate having sex to getting pregnant at all. Why? Because they dont have to. Birth control gave women the freedom to be planned mothers (or not) rather than livestock existing simply to grow the herd. Come to think of it, maybe Janet Huckabee didnt tell Mike about everything that was in her medicine cabinet.
Most women use birth control for
well, birth control. But some women actually use it for other reasons like less painful periods, PMS relief and relief from endometriosis. Yes, Mr. Huckabee medical reasons beyond just limiting the number of unwanted pregnancies and children. God forbid that birth control be covered by health insurance companies. What could be worse than that? I dont know
maybe a prescription drug commercial ending with the phrase if an erection lasts longer than 4 hours seek medical attention? But that is what this is really all about. Its not about fighting for womens rights. Its not even about fighting for the life of the unborn. Its about sex. Specifically its about sex being ok for men but not women. And honestly, Mr. Huckabee, that makes it even more difficult to understand why Republicans hate the gays. Hell if it were up to me, I would have insurance companies pay for condoms and early pregnancy test sticks too. One would reduce the number of STDs and the other would save those Palins a lot of money. Poor things up there in Alaska just waiting for Aunt Flo to fly in on a bomber from Russia
Now if Mr. Huckabee would like to redefine the war on women, Im all for it. But lets call it what it really is the hunt for Red November Voters. So I have a solution. If you believe women should have the freedom to decide when and how often to bring children into the world, vote for your friendly Democrat preferably a female. If you would prefer that sex exists simply as a means to procreate, vote for Huckabee or any other old, white Republican.
The rest:
http://margaretandhelen.com/2014/01/24/uncle-sugar-needs-to-meet-aunt-flo/
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)we're unclean.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)You should be bearing as many children as you possibly can!
Cleita
(75,480 posts)their ideology with quotes from the Bible, it could become a reality.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)To help detect the unclean hordes among us.
riqster
(13,986 posts)alterfurz
(2,473 posts)...it was such a winner for the GOP last election." -- Andy Borowitz
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 24, 2014, 05:53 PM - Edit history (1)
First it was abortion, now birth control, next women working. Before long we will be in a dress in the kitchen in high heels like June Cleaver. Not me, no way baby!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)the ultimate goal of the voting roles is white men of property.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)CrispyQ
(36,446 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)You'll have to pardon me as I have been out of using birth control for quite some years now. But, when I stand in line at my pharmacy I've noticed there are all sorts of things for women as far as birth control goes. Over the counter stuff ranging from the female condom, spermicides, sponges, fertility awareness tests, and the emergency items like Plan B. Then you have the Rx BC like diaphragms, the pill (seems like 20 different types), and patches. For men there are condoms.
I always found it odd that would spend so much time, money and resources to build a better bullet proof vest, than to simply unload the gun.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)who get pregnant. So they have to care a whole lot. A man? He does what a guy does and what does he care if nine months later there's a mini-him out there.
Yeah, I know, plenty of men do care, but there are too many men out there like Huckabee and all the other asshole Republicans who clearly know next to nothing about how human reproduction actually works. It's all these men who think they are some how entitled to tell women all about when they can have sex, or how they have to deal with the consequences if they get pregnant. Somehow it is never a man's fault. Even though they are themselves responsible for nearly 100% of all pregnancies that occur.
classof56
(5,376 posts)no longer legal thus available to the women who rely on them. I'm guessing the potential dip in revenue will be explained to all those Republicons who want to do away with them, prompting a change of mind. For right now, though, I simply don't get it.
Sentath
(2,243 posts)Because the vest only has to protect one egg a cycle from a few hails of fire. The gun builds something on the order of a billion bullets a month. And, the factory runs 24x7 puberty to death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_contraceptive
http://www.livescience.com/8332-male-birth-control-pill.html
From previous reading one of the problems is that it isn't so difficult to make a guy infertile, but it's a much more difficult trick to do it temporarily.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Which makes sense, if the pill makes a woman bloated or cranky she can dismiss it as being infinitely better than the symptoms of even the healthiest pregnancy. Men have no similar built-in incentive to deal with minor side effects.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)"Now for some women, sex is something they would prefer to avoid. Just look at Janet Huckabee with her three children."